Ziqiao Yi

Digital Direction (MA)
This is a digital island related to personal industrial design experience. The renderings include freely growing mushrooms and mycelium, biomimetic mushroom structures, and warm bioluminescence.
This is a digital island related to personal industrial design experience. The renderings include freely growing mushrooms and mycelium, biomimetic mushroom structures, and warm bioluminescence.
This is a digital island related to personal industrial design experience. The renderings include freely growing mushrooms and mycelium, biomimetic mushroom structures, and warm bioluminescence.
The mushroom breaks free from the iron cage used by humans to restrain it, praising the resilience of non-humans and expressing the urgency of coexistence between humans and non-humans.
Various mushrooms and mycelium growing out of a rocky surface, faint bioluminescence flickered in the heart of the mushroom as the mycelium fused with the steel structure.
Various mushrooms and mycelium growing out of a rocky surface, faint bioluminescence flickered in the heart of the mushroom as the mycelium fused with the steel structure.
Using the author's own images captured in nature as textures for the mushrooms makes them more relatable and realistic.
360-degree panoramic tour
Feel the mushrooms together!
This is a digital island related to personal industrial design experience. The renderings include freely growing mushrooms and mycelium, biomimetic mushroom structures, and warm bioluminescence.
Various mushrooms and mycelium growing out of a rocky surface, faint bioluminescence flickered in the heart of the mushroom as the mycelium fused with the steel structure.

About

Ziqiao Yi is a 3D artist with a background in industrial design. Most of her works are based on digital modelling to create figurative and gorgeous virtual digital worlds, as well as her adeptness in using a variety of different materials and textures, showing her dedication to digital media.

During her studies at the Royal College of Art, she focused on topics such as climate change, the solar crisis, human/non-human symbiosis, and the stigmatisation of fungi, which are closely related to her own practice. She tries to combine sensibility and rationality, basing her beautiful stories on rigorous logic. So she no longer only pursues high technology and beautiful visuals, but also learnt how to narrate with a critical perspective.

For her, digital artists are important groups who draw the attention of all human beings to an important event, and she always hopes to bring more urgent global issues to the audience’s view, and use immersive images, VR technology, panoramic interaction and installation to allow more human beings to participate in the creation of art.

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