La Geria is an original interactive visualisation concept, designed and built by Factory Fifteen. It is set within the dramatic volcanic region of Lanzarote, proposing a high-tech, drone harvesting vineyard. It is a fully interactive, immersive environment, rendered in real-time, at photo-realistic quality and is packaged with its own, easy-to-use interface. It works like an app and can be loaded on a desktop, tablet, or through a web browser.

We went through a normal design exploration, creating 3d mockups of potential designs for the vineyard. We loved some of the volcanic vineyards in Lanzarote and thought to base the landscape on that while proposing a more production-efficient done harvesting solution that dictated the design and function of the architecture. Once designed we textured everything in 3ds max and imported it into Unreal where we lit and animated the assets for the film.

La Geria won first prize in the Epic Games and Ronen Bekerman Real-Time Rendering Competition and was our first step into what has now become common practice in utilising realtime technology in several of our production workflows.