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South by Southwest (SXSW) has announced it’ll be hosting its annual gaming awards in March, revealing 43 nominees across 12 different categories. That includes a virtual reality (VR) category with some of the most prominent titles of the last 12 months in the running like Valve’s
Half-Life: Alyx and Motive Studios’
Star Wars: Squadrons.
Half-Life: Alyx has been nominated in almost every VR award going whilst cross-platform
Star Wars: Squadrons was a big hit towards the end of 2020. Also on the list are
Down the Rabbit Hole, a little gem of a puzzle title from Cortopia Studios.
Possibly the most controversial on the list is
for the project with hand-painted characters and environments.
Namoo is the Korean word for “tree”, with the narrative taking viewers on a journey through a man’s life, from budding artist to grandfather, celebrating his tree of life. “Erick Oh is an exciting, emerging director in animation, and from the moment he first shared his vision of
Namoo with us, we knew we wanted to work with him. His wondrous artistic sensibilities are a natural fit for what we do at Baobab in that he crafts deeply personal films which connect with viewers both emotionally and universally,” said Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO of Baobab Studios to Deadline. “We are very proud of
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Paper Birds, the animated virtual reality (VR) short which recently won Best Animation Experience at the Raindance Immersive Awards has now arrived for Oculus Quest, well the first part has.
A collaborative project between Latin American studio 3DAR, Baobab Studios and Facebook’s Oculus,
Paper Birds tells the story of a young musician named Toto (played by
Jojo Rabbit star Archie Yates). His music (performed by Argentine tango musician Juan Jose Mosalini) encourages a mysterious flock of paper birds to appear.
In doing so Toto discovers they’re key to unlocking a doorway from his physical world into a dark invisible one. Clocking in at 20-minutes,