Milos Grkovic
Member
Description of the Virtual Experience
"Oceanliner Designs’ GRAND VOYAGE is a new virtual experience designed to give you the freedom to explore history’s greatest machines.In GRAND VOYAGE you can walk around historic vessels in a number of different environments, control the weather conditions and the time of day and interact with your surroundings to learn the incredible stories of some of history’s forgotten marvels. From ships like Empress of Ireland to the Queen Mary and the R101 Airship."
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Oceanliner Designs' Grand VoyageThe Team:
Mike Brady
CREATIVE DIRECTORMike is the founder and presenter of Oceanliner Designs. He is from Melbourne, Australia and his passion for historic ships began, like most of the team, at a very young age when he was exposed to impactful films like A Night to Remember and Titanic. With a background in Industrial Design, sales and digital marketing he started Oceanliner Designs as an illustration business. Soon, Mike found a love for film making and storytelling, starting the YouTube channel in 2021 at the height of COVID lockdown and trying his hand at researching, writing, animating and production.
Sarah B.
RESEARCHERSarah is a writer and researcher, specializing in the history of early twentieth century Edwardian liners. She considers Titanic her first real love, with the release of the 1997 film having sparked her affinity for ships. She began writing stories at the age of 5, eventually working her way up to poetry and creative writing pursuits throughout her academic career, eventually earning a BA in Music and English from Buffalo State University in 2011. When she isn’t writing or researching for Oceanliner Designs, she works at a large independent music shop in Buffalo, NY, where she manages the showroom and the lesson program, as well as handling marketing and social media content for the company.
Jack Gibson
MEDIA COORDINATORJack grew up absolutely obsessed with the Titanic to the point his friends, family and even his school teachers couldn’t separate the image of Titanic from him - Jack took his love and passion of Titanic to the next level through his work with ‘Titanic: Honor and Glory’ and taught himself animation inside the program Unreal Engine to help bring the ship back to life, though he doesn’t just specialise in Titanic. Jack, like the rest of our team, shares a deep passion for all Ocean Liners from the towering hull of the Lusitania to the more cosy and compact Empress of Ireland. Where’s there’s a ship, there’ll be Jack!
Lucas Gustaffson
MODELLERLucas is a 3D modeler from Brazil. His passion for ships started like many while watching the movie Titanic (1997) with his late father. This sparked a deep interest, browsing through magazines and the early internet for articles or any videos about ships and their history that he could find. Lucas started making cardboard and clay models of famous vessels but in later years, as a teenager, he began to model them digitally using Google Sketchup. Over the course of countless hours, Lucas has modeled many of history’s most well known and lesser known ocean liners and passenger ships. Inspired by the complexity of other models available online, Lucas rose to the challenge to try to replicate the hull curves and details; his first 3D model ship, the Empress of Ireland, was completed in 2015. Since then he has continued to hone his skill and craft, creating superb 3D visualizations. GRAND VOYAGE will feature many of Lucas’ 3D models, up-detailed and walkable. He says he continues to practice and improve all the time in the belief that all creators are eternal apprentices.
Matthew Hughes
LEAD DEVELOPERLike many, Matt’s interest in ships started back with shipwreck books and James Cameron’s movie. Matt’s first foray into computers was with modding for a game called Battlefield 1942 in 2002. After finishing a career in the military in 2016 Matt started learning Unreal Engine with the express desire to bring back to life historic Ocean Liners in photorealistic detail. After working on an SS Normandie experience Matt was picked up by the GRAND VOYAGE team to continue working towards bringing these historic machines back to life.
