The Colossus: A body made of memory

An immersive experience built in Unity with Evercoast volumetric capture.

Night scene from The Colossus: dark rock formations rise from a teal sea, with moonlight reflecting on the water.

Overview

The Colossus is a cinematic, immersive, spatial experience through emerging digital media. I created the piece in Unity and used Evercoast volumetric capture to transform my body into a sculptural presence that feels suspended between dream and memory.

The Colossus on a curved projection screen, with visitors walking through the space.
Volumetric capture studio: a ring of lights and cameras around an empty stage, seen from the control area.
Jayson sitting on a stool inside the volumetric capture rig, surrounded by vertical light bars.
Jayson sitting cross-legged inside the capture rig, seen through the control-room window; a monitor in front shows the capture software with his 3D avatar.

Creating an avatar with Evercoast Volumetric Recording

Scene from The Colossus at dusk: giant stone figures rise from the sea — a crouching body, a hand with raised fingers, and a colossal head — under glowing clouds.

Scripting in C#

My main concern with this piece was how to loop the scene seamlessly while offering a unique experience to each spectator. The camera script sets four positions and angles that are connected and looped. The voice-over script creates an array of twelve audio fragments that are played randomly, avoiding repetition until all twelve fragments have been used. These fragments are reproduced with a fifteen-second interval.

Wide view of the scene: the stone body, the raised hand and the colossal head on a teal sea dotted with small lights.
Close-up of the giant stone hand rising from the sea, with the small avatar of Jayson sitting cross-legged on the water below it.
Visitors walking in front of The Colossus, projected on a curved screen.
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