Creating a Universe from Scratch: Studio Syro's Handcrafted VR Pipeline
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At Studio Studio Syro creates animated stories entirely within virtual reality. Using Quill, a VR-native painting and animation tool, we draw, animate, and build worlds directly inside the headset (Figure 1). Our first project: Tales from Soda Island, was the first animated series made completely in VR, and it laid the groundwork for an expressive, handcrafted production pipeline that we've used for every project since. We've since expanded this approach across mediums and formats, creating and publishing animated pieces like Nyssa, The Art of Change, and various music videos and stage visuals, as well as interactive experiences like our SXVA prototype, PondQuest, and Dear Metaverse. In this talk, we'll walk through the way we work, how we build and animate in VR, prototype in Unity, and keep our tools lightweight and artist-friendly. From quick sketches to spatial storytelling, we'll share what it takes to build entire worlds with small teams and big ideas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".