We were approached by Scottish artist Bob Harper to create a virtual art gallery to house his unique paintings and prints of the world’s most iconic music stars. We created a modern monochrome gallery that can be viewed through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality tours to allow viewers to appreciate his paintings both up close and from a distance.
Client: Bob Harper Art
Brief: We were asked to create a virtual art gallery for Scottish artist Bob Harper, which would allow anyone to view his paintings from the comfort of their own home.
Background: Bob Harper is a renowned Scottish artist who specialises in unique portraits of some of the most iconic faces in the music industry. Each portrait features lyrics by the musician incorporated into the painting, adding an extra layer of texture and interest.
Approach: We produced a virtual art gallery displaying Bob’s paintings that can be viewed from anywhere in the world. We used a modern and monochrome style to render the gallery interiors, which are loosely based on the Stuart Shave Modern Art gallery in London. Our fixed point VR tour allows use via Google Cardboard or a desktop computer, whilst our fully immersive VR experience allows viewing through the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headsets. Our tours allow users to experience a walk through of the virtual gallery and enable the paintings to be viewed up close in order to appreciate the lyrics and text, which make the work so unique. Our VR tours also allow potential buyers to get an idea of the size and scale of each work. Our virtual gallery features on Bob Harper’s website, making his work accessible from anywhere across the globe.
Services: Interior Visualisation / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Press: The Scotsman
Client Testimonial: “Blair and the team at Render Studio have created an amazing showcase for my art that propels it into the virtual age. I am staggered, almost speechless and enormously impressed by the results of their skilled work. My paintings are now in an environment merely imagined in the science fiction books that I read as a youth. Arthur C. Clarke has just walked into my gallery.
My eternal gratitude to Render Studio for undertaking this challenge and producing an astonishing piece of work.”
— Virtual Bob