Through the Brambles

The creditThrough the Brambles, 2026: a 360° VR film from Third Wall Studio, directed by Jacob McCoy, made in Burlap, the app Sarth Calhoun created; Calhoun founded the studio. Stills by Gemini, motion by Veo, narration by ElevenLabs, edit and ambisonic mix in DaVinci Resolve.

How it was made

The studio’s page on the film says:

Through the Brambles is a fully AI-generated VR narrative, designed for headset playback. Every frame and environment was created with Gemini’s image and video models, prompted as 360 degree equirectangular imagery and assembled into a continuous, immersive journey.

The piece came out of an ongoing exploration inside Burlap, an AI-native canvas workflow tool, where I was testing the edges of what current models could actually do. Equirectangular generation kept opening up — Nano Banana could produce consistent 360 stills, and Veo 3.1, with aggressive prompting, could hold that geometry together through motion. After some early experiments with shorter, gimmickier VR concepts, I wanted to see if the pipeline could carry a real narrative. A black rotary telephone on a table became the spatial anchor, holding the viewer’s orientation as the world shifts around them. ElevenLabs voiced the narration. Edit and ambisonics mix were finished in DaVinci Resolve.

Through the Brambles is an early attempt at narrative immersive work built entirely from prompts — a small proof that generative tools can carry storytelling weight inside a headset, not just spectacle.

thirdwallstudio.com/through-the-brambles