Dreams is Being Used to Create Feature Film Environments
With the advent of game building software enabling gamers of all ages to design and develop whatever creative visions they have, it's only a matter of time before certain projects extend beyond the space of a game engine. One such example of this is Dreams, whose untethered abilities are now entering the world of film production.
Dreams is billed as an immersive game creation system, and based on the onslaught of projects produced since its release two years ago it's fair to say that Media Molecule's service lives up to the title. Not content with just creating games and sculptures, Sony Pictures Classics has announced it is using Dreams software to produce its next movie, titled A Winter's Journey.
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The movie is in development thanks to Oiffy and BreakThru Films based in London, who have previously worked with Netflix. The latter is famous for its artisan short films that constantly push the boundaries of animation, be it stop-motion, hand drawn art or CGI. Examples include Peter and the Wolf, its first short film which went on to win an Oscar, and Loving Vincent, a hand painted biopic about Vincent van Gogh. Now it is ready to try out a new medium through Dreams to engineer the environments where the film will take place.
A Winter's Journey is set in 1812, and tells of a poet's adventure through precarious yet beautiful Bavarian landscapes. The movie's backdrop will be constructed in Dreams, but other elements like actors and props are set to be live-action, blending the two mediums together. Edit Tools provide a useful utility for solo and team developers to build models from the ground up or alter pre-existing designs similarly to SFM
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