The DinoLand installation is a mixed reality experience that offers multiple layers of interaction. Visitors enter an immersive theater space to find a prehistoric scene projected on a large wall. The scene is intended to be playful and appealing to a younger audience, and evokes the aesthetic of paper dolls, dioramas, puppetry, and origami. Visitors get creative, using crayons or other media to fill in coloring pages that offer a selection of dino species. Using HP Sprouts as scanning stations, visitors scan their artwork and the application sends the colorful dinos into the projected scene where they fly and walk around, fully animated.
This project was created as a collaboration between myself and a junior designer. I led the art direction and created the look and feel of the user interface. Once the major elements were determined, I mentored the junior designer as the application was expanded and developed.
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