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Symbiosis — Multibody Creature

Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio

SYMBIOSIS · Polymorf · VR performance

Part of the projectSYMBIOSISThe film, every creature, the performance and the flora.See the full project

Case study

Role · Period
3D Lead DesignerJuly 2020 — August 2021
Brief
Design the world of SYMBIOSIS: a multi-sensory VR performance in which each participant becomes a post-human symbiont, a human–animal or human–machine hybrid.
Delivered
  • Creatures and their reproductive systems
  • Characters, including the Children of Compost
  • Environments
  • Design sheets for each species
Outcome
World premiere at IDFA DocLab 2021 (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam), Special Jury Award for Creative Technology. Then Holland Festival 2022, PAM CUT Portland (US premiere) and SXSW 2023.

Also in SYMBIOSISTwo-Body Symbiont SystemChildren of Compost

A creature made of three fully autonomous organisms that merge for reproduction.

The idea comes from the anglerfish: the male is far smaller than the female and, once he finds her, bites into her belly and releases an enzyme that dissolves the surrounding skin. Their circulatory systems fuse, and he becomes a permanent appendage dedicated to reproduction.

Designed for SYMBIOSIS, the multi-sensory VR performance by Polymorf, for which I led the 3D design of creatures, characters and environments. The creature was also published in issue 288 of 3D World magazine.

Year
2022
Client
Polymorf
Role
3D Lead Designer
Discipline
Creature · Production · VR
Recognition
IDFA DocLab 2021 — Special Jury Award for Creative TechnologyHolland Festival 2022SXSW 2023 — XR Experience Spotlight3D World magazine, issue 288 (2022)
View on ArtStationPolymorf — SYMBIOSIS ↗Holland Festival ↗symbiosis.show ↗The book — The Eriskay Connection ↗
Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — image 2: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
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Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — image 3: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
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Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — image 4: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
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Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — image 5: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
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Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — Design sheet: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
06 / 08Design sheet
Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — Sketch: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
07 / 08Sketch
Symbiosis — Multibody Creature — 3D World magazine, issue 288 — 2022: a creature made of three autonomous organisms, for the SYMBIOSIS VR performance, creature design by Roberto Digiglio
08 / 083D World magazine, issue 288 — 2022