DISTANCED

IMMERSION


A Collaboration between students at the University of Seville and West Virginia University

Spring 2025


West Virginia University and EUSA students explored ways to tell stories by creating digital twins, or 3D models, of real locations in Morgantown and Seville during the 2025 collaboration.

They used AI to develop ideas, log lines and scripts for their fictional projects. Then collaborated to scan locations in Spain and the U.S. that fit the locations in their scripts. The final products were published in multiple formats — traditional video that was manipulated in After Effects for animation, as well as choose-your-own adventure and linear narratives that were interactive and engaging.

The Projects

Doors

A white door. A domesticated life. An obsessed ex barges in, gun raised. A fight for freedom begins.

By Brodey Cook, María Páez Tejada, Erin Strauss, Aidan Cornue, Juan Bellón Jiménez,

Modern Day Jack & Rose

An updated take on the old romcom format, told through spaces and witty dialogue.

By Elsa Blanca García Vila, Itzel Xiques, Judit Ruiz Parrillo, Lillian Mcswigan. Michelle Peribanez

The Woman in Pearls

A memory‑wiped fixer. A doomed woman in pearls. Clues across bars and back alleys. Choose wisely—break the fatal loop.

By Emma Fleming, Ethan Molloy López, Jenna Brosnan, Katie Foley, Tayan Cooper