THE BABY FACTORY IS WHAT?
You are not just in a game, you are inside a body. Not just any body: Zoraan’s. Her mind. Her muscles. Her memory. Everything you see, touch, hear is her. This is a living landscape, collapsing and fighting back. Zoraan is trapped inside her own body as it’s monitored, medicated and overwritten by systems of control, colonial, patriarchal and climate-driven. She’s not just the protagonist. She is the world.
The baby factory is closed, but the fight is just beginning…
INTERACTIVE
LBE
ROOM SCALE
VR
“Every time my body changes, they update the firmware.”
WORLD PREMIERE
THE BABY FACTORY IS CLOSED premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas and was exhibited in the Congressional Ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel from the 15th to the 17th of March.
“Tick tock, sweetheart. This game’s already started.”
PRESS
BTS
From Studio Capture to In-Engine Animation
Working with Lauren as our performer, we captured her movements in the motion capture studio, translating her physical performance into digital animation data. This data was then processed, retargeted to the character rig, and brought into the Unreal engine, bridging the gap between Lauren’s real-world movements and Zoraan’s digital body. The process allowed us to carry the nuances of a human performance into the virtual world of The Baby Factory Is Closed, connecting the physical body, its digital double, and the environment it inhabits.