Tom Christopher and recent grads from the Fashion Institute of Technology collaborated on two virtual reality projects building veritable landscapes. The first was recreating an entire city block in the South Bronx. For the second phase a portion of the New York Botanical Gardens, a recreation and reinterpretation of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and the holiday train show displayed annually inside.
Tom and his team first visit the site and make numerous sketches and take photos for reference. Then, returning to Tom’s studio in upstate New York, the preliminary work is sorted and studied, and translated into a virtual environment.
