BABA YAGA, a VR immersive experience, directed and written by Baobab Studios co-founder Eric Darnell and co-directed by Mathias Chelebourg, stars Kate Winslet, Daisy Ridley, Jennifer Hudson and Glenn Close. Today, Baobab Studios unveiled the official teaser trailer for BABA YAGA. Watch the official teaser trailer released today below.
The VR immersive experience is a contemporary portrayal of the Eastern European legend breathed to life with illustrative 2D pop-up animation, as well as hand-drawn and stop-motion styles, creating a modern visual language for VR inspired by classic animation.
Leveraging the studio’s award-winning animation pioneers and interactive gaming veterans, BABA YAGA blends theater, cinema, interactivity, AI, and animation into a unique experience that explores themes of empowerment and environmentalism.
In BABA YAGA, viewers will be invited as a main character into a haunting fairytale world completely reimagined, and their choices could determine the ending of this story of love, fortitude and magic. Sometimes a force for evil, sometimes a force for good, the enigmatic witch Baba Yaga (Winslet) uses her powers to stop the villagers whose settlement encroaches upon her enchanted Forest (Hudson).
When the viewer’s mother, the Chief (Close), falls deathly ill, it is up to them and their sister Magda (Ridley) to do the unthinkable—enter the forbidden rainforest, uncover its hidden mysteries and get the cure from Baba Yaga. Ultimately, every decision the viewer makes matters … perhaps even whether humanity and nature can live in balance.
BABA YAGA is executive produced by Jennifer Hudson, Maureen Fan, Larry Cutler, and Kane Lee. Distributed by Baobab Studios, BABY YAGA is also produced by Nathaniel Dirksen and Jeremiah Graves.
BABA YAGA will be available exclusively on Oculus Quest early 2021. For more information please visit: https://www.baobabstudios.com/baba-yaga.
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Source: BaobabStudios
