The goal of this project was to create a vector illustration that tells the story of an emerging technology. For this project, I decided to go with VR/AR because of all the storytelling potential it has.

I wasn't fully sure what direction to go with it though. Below you can see some of the different ideas I was considering. Since VR makes you feel as if you are fully immersed in the game, it was important that whatever concept I went with was in 1st person POV.

After that, I chose what I thought would be the best ideas that could be turned into a VR game and sketched out some thumbnails. To reflect how these concepts might actually work as VR, I showed hands and possibly even feet in most of the them, to give the illusion of 1st person POV.

From these thumbnails, I narrowed my selection down to 3 concepts I felt were the most exciting and the ones I felt I could more realistically recreate with my current skill set. These concepts were the Mario Mushroom World, a Pexels-inspired 1st person alien shooter game, and a game where you explore a nebula.

After looking at the mind map, I decided to go with the Mario Mushroom World concept. Admittedly, I was inspired by the Mario movie that just came out last year. I sketched out the basics of what the final image should look like.

Then, I recreated the final image using my Wacom tablet and Adobe Illustrator. The gradient tool was incredibly handy for adding depth to the image.To finish the illustration, I added the outlines and partial overlay of some VR goggles.

Overall, I'm really happy with the way this turned out. If I were to change anything though, I would probably change how I made the castle and VR goggles overlay, since they didn't turn out like I was hoping they would.

Thank you for viewing!