Virtual Reclamation

+ Personal Work+ 2023 - 2025

A series reflecting on a childhood struggle to find balance between the digital and physical worlds. With deconstructed and styled digital landscapes, Virtual Reclamation explores themes of loneliness, guilt, and neglect. The series incorporates direct references to existing videogame environments and gaming culture. Stripped of color and captured in a suspended moment, the pieces represent the journey towards reclaiming a digital space, paralleling my personal growth in overcoming addiction.

Conceptualizing

3D Modeling

3D Texturing

Clothing Design

Cloth Simulation

Post-Production

08.02.01Revisiting & Reflecting

It started off by revisiting games I used to play as a teenager.

While playing I had a deep feeling of regret, loneliness and guilt, and decided to explore why I felt this further.

I did a deep research of the gamefiles, scenes and features, reconstructing assets in 3D and making new original scenes, translating these deep feelings and putting them to rest.

Virtual Reclamation — Revisiting & Reflecting by William Knies

08.02.02Pieces

Dirt House — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Dirt House

Healing — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Healing

Less — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Less

Locked In — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Locked In

More — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — More

Practice — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Practice

Touching Grass — Virtual Reclamation — Pieces by William Knies — Touching Grass