Tanya Leal Soto

Producer

A VR experience with live actors coming to Oculus Quest in 2019, a collaboration between Tender Claws and  Piehole.

Teaser

An intriguing experience set between two worlds: a jaunty vaudeville stage and the harrowing survival narrative. Uncover the story of a ship stranded in time as supplies dwindle and day-by-day an otherworldly mist rolls closer. Follow characters’ interlocking fates as all journeys forward must turn back or become lost.

Explore a world that’s “a victory for uncompromising oddity and all the weirdos who love it.”

Producer

A virtual pet that feeds on laughter, surprise and tears. Bring Guppy out of its virtual fishbowl and into the real world, and feed it through a well-balanced diet of feels. Guppy will learn and evolve based on players’ facial expressions and social interactions – the more faces it can scan, the better! Guppy can also recognize and respond to over 200 objects, building up knowledge as it interacts more and more with the physical world. Watch as Guppy takes stock of its newfound knowledge to evolve from a non-verbal AI to a unique creature with its own personality – but beware that sentience may lead to a full blown existential crisis!

Trailer

"IndieCade 2018" Winner: Inovation in Interaction

"IDFA Doc Lab 2018" Official Selection

Tendar was created by Tender Claws

Director

Loosely based on Igor Stravinsky’s ballet, Fire Bird Spectacular was performed as the opening show for 2018 Ignite Fire Flow conference, fire dancers, fire fx and a fire puppet engulfed the night.

Producer

A humorous, fun and provocative installation expanding the mythology of Tender Claws' tendar app. The installation combines environmental storytelling, AR and emotion/face recognition technology. The star of the experience is your AI app guide, a fish-like creature who becomes increasingly sentient and amusingly analyzes the partners collaborating in the experience, their emotions and the world around them. The tendar installation consists of two parts: a sleek booth representing the fictional emotional scanning service: TendAR and an 8 minute version of our intimate, 2 player cooperative AR experience.

Producer

 Virtual virtual reality (VVR) is a three hour narrative game that directly responds to contemporary issues and debates around how the advancement of A.I. and VR are shaping our society and the way we work: gig economy, virtual labor, outsourcing. The game playfully winks at the lines between simulation/real, prefab/free will and human/artificial.

VVR was created by Indie studio Tender Claws with the support of Google Daydream.

Available now on Rift, Oculus Go, Gear VR, Steam, Viveport and Daydream

AWARDS

Google Play Awards 2017          Best VR Experience

"International Mobile Gaming Awards 2018"  Best VR Game and Excellence in Audio

"Raindance Film Festival 2017" Best Mobile Interactive Experience

"Future of StoryTelling 2017" Finalist, People's Choice Award

"Unity Awards 2017" Finalist, Best VR Game

"IndieCade 2017" Official Nominee

"Vision VR/AR Awards 2017 " Finalist, Best Game

"VR Awards Shortlist 2017" Finalist, VR Game of the Year

Director/Writer

Waiting (Scenes from a lonely planet) is a 360° music video shot with the GoPro Odyssey and produced by JoltVR

Co-writer

In 2017 Tanya co-wrote together with Carlos González Muñiz a 10 episode series for Televisa Foundation, with the goal of raising awareness among young Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology. 

The series told the story of four girls who go into an after school program where they learn about different technologies guided by their human mentors and their A.I. friend Max. Each episode focuses in a different topic such as VR, drones, cybersecurity, robots, 3D printing, etc

Director/Writer

Originally commissioned for the Art Exhibit THE FUCHUR: A 22nd Century Cultural Retrospective hold at the Think Tank Gallery in DTLA, Étienne is a 360- degree short that puts the viewer in first person point of view as an observer in a park where not so ordinary things start to happen; at the end the viewer discovers he is not just an observer.

Etienne was produced by Jolt VR

Co-Director

Aloud performs an acoustic version of "Falling Out of Love" at the Old LA Zoo.

Shot and directed by Tanya Leal-Soto and Charles Newman

Producer

The Wicked Kind is a 360 VR Music Experience inspired by the cult classic Tron for the Cuban-American Rock band Aloud.

Director

The Salt Fields is a slice of a much larger universe written by Carlos González Muñiz which tells the chronicles of an imaginary place called El Puente, a failed project that once wanted to be a residential-industrial corridor between the Earth and the Moon. In this gloomy universe, space exploration has led us to colonize other planets and androids are the only beings capable of remaining pure in an unjust planetary system indifferent to beauty.

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Director

Created by Tanya Leal Soto and Noel Williams

"E is for Edward" was performed at the 2016 Edwardian Ball at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.

Rod, shadow and life size puppets together with smoke effects, a piano player and an opera singer telling the story of Edward Gory’s creatures.

PEDALBUMP aka Pedal Powered Bumper cars, was an interactive installation taken to Burning Man from 2013 to 2015 under a big top tent.

Created by: Tanya Leal Soto

Pedalbump Team: Zak Knight, Kevin Bourque, Sarah Firefly, Shawn ChikAdee

Special Thanks to everyone at The Red Nose District

Director

A short film to promote long life collaborator’s Carlos González Muñiz novel Todo era oscuro bajo el cielo Iluminado published by La Cifra Editorial

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In a post-apocalyptic environment, one of the world's largest cities undergoes an indefinite power outage. Chaos appears within a few days. Systematically, the authorities and the leaders have left. A new order is established in a city that is almost impossible to leave, surrounded by miles of what are now lost cities and belts of misery where no one leaves alive. A high-middle-class architect struggles to survive in this environment while, gradually, he must degrade himself and appeal to his instincts to get ahead and find his wife, who has decided to leave.

This short was part of a multimedia campaign that linked the world in the novel with an online community that could access extra chapters and music from the world in the book.