The award-winning VR film Gargoyle Doyle will put a smile on your face
The VR movie Gargoyle Doyle tells an unusual and humorous story that spans 800 years and is now available on Meta Quest.
Gargoyle Doyle is the latest creation from director Ethan Shaftel (Ajax All Powerful) and won the prize for best VR film at this year's Annecy Animation Festival.
Here's how his L.A.-based studio easyAction describes the story of Gargoyle Doyle.
"Doyle is a grouchy, self-important gargoyle with a chip on his shoulder – quite literally, as he was damaged in a fall during installation above the cathedral’s main entrance. Relegated to a back alcove with other irregular gargoyles, Doyle resents the hand life dealt him, especially the fact that he is stuck two feet from Chet, a decorative metal rain gutter. Chet is the yin to Doyle’s yang, a chatterbox optimist who never shuts up. Ever.
Doyle and Chet watch the world change around them as their alcove falls into disrepair. Hundreds of years later, as bulldozers surround the cathedral for demolition, both must confront who they really are and what their lives add up to."
A VR movie worth seeing
I watched the VR movie, and although I had a little trouble with the introduction and the humor at the beginning, I grew to like the two main characters over the course of the 40-minute running time.
Gargoyle Doyle begins and ends in a museum dedicated to a torn down cathedral. We experience the building's 800-year history from the all-too-human perspectives of Doyle and Chet, who witness plagues, revolutions, wars, and the modern age. The VR film is both a darkly humorous metaphor about the finiteness of existence and a tribute to human optimism and the will to change, embodied by the two very different main characters.
Doyle and Chet are excellently voiced by movie stars Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter) and Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense). Unfortunately, there are no subtitles in English or other languages. If you don't speak English well, it will be difficult to follow the witty and humorous dialogue between Doyle and Chet.
You can purchase Gargoyle Doyle in the Horizon Store. A Steam version is coming soon.
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