Lúcido By Vier

After waking up from a nightmare, Gil learns to control his dreams with the help of his boyfriend. Together they journey through strange dreamscapes and discover that the worst dreams are the ones they don’t want to wake up from.
Lúcido is an interactive narrative VR experience. The spaces of Lúcido originated from an attempt to translate Vier’s visual practice into virtual reality. Double images mark moments of transition between ordinary dreams and lucid dreams. In a static double image, two realities coexist simultaneously. In Lúcido, these images acquire movement and three-dimensionality.The double image becomes a liminal threshold – a transient point of passage.
The degree of agency in Lúcido mirrors the protagonist’s level of lucidity. As lucidity increases, participants progressively gain influence over the dreamscape; learning to fly and to draw vast, impossible structures across the sky.
The creation of safe spaces for queer expression within chosen families finds a parallel in the conscious construction of worlds during lucid dreams. Lúcido alternates between moments of dream exploration and fragments of everyday life within a queer family.
Lúcido is part of The Dream Anthology – a collaboration between six studios with the goal to foster original VR experiences.
Lúcido is a seated 6DOF experience, compatible with Meta Quest 3 ( Standalone and PCVR).
Credits
Directed By | Vier
Original Music by | Filipe Raposo
Portuguese Voices | Tadeu Faustino, Rafael Gomes
English Voices | Joshua Dowden , José Maria Forjaz
Screenplay and Art Direction | Vier
3D Character Modelling | Marco Vale
3D Modelling | Inês Coimbra, Rita Duarte, Vier
3D Animation | José Carlos Poeiras, Ana Rita Novais, Rik Goddard, Vier
Rigging | José Carlos Poeiras
VR Development and Debugging | Vier, Riccardo Ferri
Multidisciplinary Assistance | Ana Ferreira
Compositing | Vier
Sound Design | Carlos Abreu
Sound Technician for Voice Recording | Rui Miguel
Voice Recording Studio | Sommus
VR Consultant | Ana-Despina Tudor
Financial Director | António Selas
Accounting | Capitalgés
Camera Operator Making Of | Ana Ferreira
Communications Assistant | Sophie Colfer
Produced by | Cola Animation
Producers | Bruno Caetano, Susana Miguel António
Production Direction | Susana Miguel António
Anthology co-producers
Studio Kimchi (ES)
Robin Studio (IT)
Ouros Animation (DK)
Delirium XR (BR/PE)
Dinamita Animación (CO)
Financial Support
Cultura – República Portuguesa
ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
Ibermedia Next
Paramotion Films
