Infected Mushroom Freedom Stage

Client: Shangri-La / Lost Horizon Festival

Project: Infected Mushroom

Categories: 3D Design / VR

Date: December 2020

Infected Mushroom were one of the headline acts in the Lost Horizon 2 event schedule and we wanted to get in some large mushroom characters which didn’t quite fit in with the existing Freedom Stage setting. So we developed a bespoke world just for this one event, with a more natural setting and glowing mushrooms.

Taking inspiration from the various album artworks in Infected Mushrooms discography we built 3 giant mushroom titans who would loom over the venue throughout the performance. We built the titans like virtual puppets, digitally sculpting the various parts, painting them in Substance Painter, then piecing them all back together and creating the animations. It was great to see these guys towering tall into the sky when in VR and we really enjoyed seeing all the crazy avatars wearing the bespoke t-shirts and mushroom hats.

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