Lantern Theater City
Concept art for lanterns, city alleys, and the shadow-puppet theater space.
Codename Piying
An interactive film-game that expands the Eastern traditional art of shadow-puppet theater into a fantasy Shadow Theater City, using layered narrative and Eastern art direction for interactive expression.
This is a short-term project with a complete narrative system already formed, now being accelerated and refined with the latest artificial intelligence technology.
Stage Setup
Concept art for the puppet stage, lanterns, and layered scenery.
Intermission
Concept art for the theater pause, audience space, and emotional rhythm.
Paper Puppet Workshop
Concept art for the craft space, folk objects, and story clues.
Final Choice
Concept art for choice, shadow figures, and the finale mood.
City Architecture
This is a city especially concerned with the relationship between people and shadows. Shadow puppetry is the soul of the city. As the saying goes, when the false becomes true, truth itself may become false. In this city, what is real and what is illusion? Perhaps seeing it is still not enough to know. Perhaps only by experiencing it can one truly understand.
Lantern Theater City
Stages appear everywhere in the city, and lantern light flickers everywhere. Why does all of this exist, and why does it exist in this way? Who am I, and who is my shadow?
Stage Setup
The stage, lanterns, and scenery are one interactive language of the film-game. What people watch is not a performance, but life itself. This is not just a saying, because the performance changes life.
Intermission
Intermission is often praised as the emotional sorting area for onlookers. Here, one may gather thoughts and consider character relationships, or simply empty the mind. Sometimes the play is life; sometimes it is only a play.
Paper Puppet Workshop
Many folk materials are placed throughout the workshop. Sometimes material is only material; sometimes it is a story clue. Can you tell the relationship between a paper puppet and its shadow?
Final Choice
The finale always arrives, but every viewing is different. Each performance is seen through your own unique perspective. You may think you have seen every truth, but your shadow will surely tell you: you have not.