"Welcome to GLORIA!, world creator and town crier. In her fabricated habitat she feels the confines of this world, but also the freedom of complete creative control. And then she feels the confines again. But then she remembers the freedom. But what about the confi-"
Here Gloria embraces her third and ¿final? form in the 3rd dimension. She is stuck, isolated in a world she created herself. Sometimes, she is giddy with her creations and cannot wait to show off her metallic plums and wrinkly trees. Other times she is drained from making and the thought of her future as a creator. What now?
I was lucky enough to be enrolled onto the Immersive Arts Bootcamp at Birmingham Open Media in late 2024. Here I learned how to 3D model using Blender, build environments in Unreal Engine 5 and animate my character using motion capture, altogether producing my latest work, ‘GLORIA!’'(2025). I had just gone back into full time work, and finding the balance between work and art put enough fear into me that it inspired Gloria’s point of view. I was, and still am, proud of learning this new medium and my creative potential has widened. As for my time to use it, not so much.