Come for the Instagram, stay for the art
Instead of 3D scanning old and new footage for motion capture, Tsang went for 2.5D Depthkit technology, to make the dancers' movements appear "less robotic". She loved Depthkit's way of representing human figures in the form of luminous, parallel vertical lines, making them appear abstract and incomplete compared to fully fleshed-out 3D figures, especially since the fragmented images resonate with the theme of passing on to a world beyond the known and familiar.
The first Hong Kong-made VR project to make it to the Venice International Film Festival, Chroma 11 is currently on show at the West Kowloon Cultural District's Freespace, in an enhanced iteration. The package comprises a video film, an immersive audiovisual installation and the VR piece.
