A mushroom is a door in the floor. Open it, and discover an endless, underground network that feeds life-giving essentials to the plants above. Microscopic highways of mycelium a million miles long run beneath, hidden from our eye. And there, in the dark tunnels of the underground, this vast, invisible network performs nature’s alchemy, converting the many into one. An essential song that sustains all earthly life.
Enter Forager and live the life of fungi, from air-borne spore to underground mycelium to sprouting mushroom. Bring the forest to life, and discover the magical world beneath your feet.
IMMERSE YOURSELF
Life begins below.
Inventing new
technology to tell the hidden story under our feet.
PROCESS
This is the first ever volumetric time-lapse inside of a game engine.
By developing cutting-edge 3D scanning hardware and software, the Forager team has begun capturing a library of mushrooms growing over time and play them back as hyperrealistic animations in the Unreal Engine.
The soil of old growth forests holds the key to human survival. Its fungi help us breathe, keep us fed, let us heal, and keep critical carbon in the ground. But these forests are disappearing - putting at risk mycelial life and human life. The Fungi Foundation is fighting to protect old growth forests.
GET INVOLVED
You need fungi and
fungi needs you.
THE CREATORS
We are tech people and mushroom enthusiasts.
Winslow Porter
Co-creator
Creative Director
Winslow is an award-winning director, producer and creative technologist specializing in virtual/augmented reality as well as large-scale immersive installations.
Elie Zananiri
Co-creator
Technical Director
Elie is an Emmy-award winning creative developer, specializing in large-scale installations, graphics programming, and virtual reality. His work experiments with breaking social boundaries in public, through immersive experiences and generative compositions.
An ecosystem of artists, farmers, and engineers.
THE TEAM
We share a deep-seated passion and curiosity for mushrooms and the natural world they influence and inhabit.
Art Director
Mother Nature
Technology Director
Elie Zananiri
Photogrammetry Consultant
Tomáš Mišura and Nikola Jancovicova of Reality Capture
Guillaume Monsergent
Narrator
Sarah Natochenny
Mycobrick Partner
Ecovative
Scenic Design
David Benjamin
Ray Wang
Daniel Perlin
David Komet
Title Designer
Elise Porter
Capture Rig Design
Array Kinetics
Experiential Design
Emily Edelman
Rig Technical Producer
Addison Worthington IV
Scent Partner
OW Smell Digital
Look Development Artist
Kevin Peter He
Marker Rig Design
Adam Lassy
Public Relations
Jessie Cohen PR
Photography
Paul McGeiver
Mycological Partner/Consultant
Fungi Foundation
Partner Outreach
Stefani Bardin
Cultivation Consultant
Stephen Jomaoas
Louis Vassar Semanchik
Conservation Partner
On The Edge
Looking Glass Partner
Looking Glass
FESTIVALS
06/07 ~ 06/12
ONX
New York
06/29 ~ 07/09
BIFAN
Bucheon, Korea
07/18 ~ 07/20
Games for Change at ONX
08/06 ~ 08/10
Siggraph + Immersive Pavilion
08/22 ~ 08/27
MUTEK
Montreal, Canada
08/30 ~ 09/09
Venice Immersive
Venice, Italy
09/14 ~ 09/17
Camden International Film Festival
10/04 ~ 10/15
BFI London Film Festival
11/01 ~ 12/03
ART* VR Festival
Prague, Czech Republic
Executive Producers
Karen Short
Justin Durazzo
Adam DeMartino
Andrew Carter Alessia Bulgari
Turner Porter
Producers
Winslow Porter
Casta Jiahui Zhu
Associate Producers
David Porter
Dana Cowley
Alica Ross
Unreal Engineers
Erik Anderson
June Bee
Schuyler Devos
Filip Kostic
Csősz Gergő Levente
Xuelong Mu
Siyuan Qiu
Bryner Toma
Mingxi Xu
Olivia Yin
Will Young
Unreal Consultant
Todd Bryant
Technical Artist
Georgios Cherouvim
Environmental Artists
Baiquni Abdillah
Jack Caron
Screenwriters
Winslow Porter
Elie Zananiri
Adam Lerman
Music and Sound Design
Q Department
Smallhold Communications/PR
Abigail Knoff
Hayley Katz
Graphic Design
Ryan De La Cruz
Strategy Partner
Accenture Song
Sustainability Studio
Hardware Partner
Dell Computers
Volumetric Post Production
and Streaming Partner
Arcturus
3D Printing Partner
Pink Sparrow
OUR PARTNERS
New York
LA, California
Camden, Rockport; Rockland, Maine
London, UK