Neighborhood

Fully hand-sculpted in virtual reality, this is a still image created for a “neighborhoods”-themed zine that highlights the importance of community in an increasingly isolated society. While many may not think of apartment complexes and multi-home city living as traditional ideas of “neighborhoods”, this piece aims to help the viewer recontextualize and reimagine these as more communal and neighborly than the isolated and atomized American suburbs that many of us grew up in.

This is a piece I made for the Silverlake Shorts “Neighborhood”-themed zine. Everything was hand-sculpted in VR using Adobe Medium and then textured and lit in Houdini.

Below are some close-ups:

The original sketch: