Oculus Story Studio veterans are founding their own cinematic VR studio
Former members of Oculus Story Studio, the cinematic virtual reality team that closed last year, are founding a new studio known as Fable. Fable’s inaugural project is a VR adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children’s book The Wolves in the Walls. The piece started at Story Studio, and the first of its three episodes will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Fable is working on four future projects that will explore different elements of VR storytelling, and they’re being made inside VR as well, using tools like Oculus’ illustration program Quill.
Fable is co-founded by Edward Saatchi, who previously co-founded Story Studio, and Pete Billington, the director of Wolves in the Walls. The studio’s head of creative...