Effective visual experiment by Mark Payne combines 360 degree photography with 3D graphics rendering:
HyperBubbles came about after a recent trip to an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne. I took some 360º photos (on the new Samsung 360º camera - it’s so fun) at different exposures to then later create a set of HDRI’s for use as a lighting method in 3D. As I was walking around the space I came across this broken curved safety mirror which was just hanging there, I love how it distorted reality & looked like a bubble just floating in the space. That mental image I think stuck with me when I got home and into my play time.
I started to play with putting mirrored spheres into a sphered HDRI world, the results visually were confusing. When I showed my co-workers the next day they were tilting their heads due to not being sure of what they were looking at, I knew I had to go and explore this bubble world more.
