Crystal Bridges
Virtual Reality Experience
Painting in VR
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is fondly known as the hidden gem of Northwest Arkansas, and one of our favorite clients.
Whether we are shooting drone footage of the grounds or creating promos for upcoming exhibits, we are privileged to work alongside such a creative client. In our most complex collaboration to date, we partnered with museum curators to create a virtual reality experience of Asher B. Durand’s acclaimed painting, Kindred Spirits. Our design team spent over two hundred hours carefully cutting out every element in the painting totalling 80+ layers. The background of each layer was repainted digitally, allowing the camera to fly by the elements in post.
With these layers in hand, our animators built a 3D model of the museum interior to house the painting and exploded the layers into Z space creating depth for the digital camera. Working with local sound guru Dwight Chalmers, Adair Creative sourced local recordings from the Catskill Mountains in New York where the painting takes place to build a regionally accurate soundscape.