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VR Short Film ‘Asteroids!’ from Baobab Studios Now Available

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Interactive VR short film Asteroids! , From the director of the Madagascar franchise, the full 11-minute cut continues the journey of aliens Mac and Cheez (and robot sidekick Peas) on their deep space mission. is not currently available on PSVR, HTC Vive, or Oculus Rift, despite its considerably more interactive design.

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Oculus Artist’s ‘Quill’ Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR

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Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR. Which helped to build this quickly.

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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

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There isn’t a studio that can claim to be ‘The Pixar of VR’ just yet, but many heavy hitters in traditional media and tech are taking notice of the growth potential of animated films in VR, and specifically in Baobab Studios , the VR film studio known for animated shorts INVASION! and sequel ASTEROIDS!

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Facebook Artist Makes a Case for VR Manga in Homage to Iconic ‘Dragon Ball’ Scene

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As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive “quillistrations” as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus’ first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop. — Goro Fujita (@gorosart) September 11, 2018.

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Actress Elizabeth Banks Brings Pedigree To VR Animation ASTEROIDS!

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While we may be a ways off from having full length virtual reality or 360-degree feature films and even further than that from having them debut in movie theaters in some way, that isn’t stopping big names from getting behind the formats. directed by the same person responsible for Madagascar and narrated by Ethan Hawke.

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Why are Aliens Fishing in Space?

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Named Most Innovative Company by Fast Company (2018), the studio is creatively led by writer/director Eric Darnell (Antz and all four Madagascar films). Its slate of original projects is currently being adapted into books, comics, films, games, series, and more. In addition to Namoo (2021), Baobab has released: INVASION!

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Baobab’s ‘Invasion’ Has Reportedly Been Downloaded ‘Well Over 1 Million’ Times

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Fan was most recently the vice president of games at Zynga before starting Baobab with Madagascar and Antz director Eric Darnell. Invasion is available for free on just about every VR platform available to date including Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Tagged with: Asteroids!