A method executed by a computing device includes generating a virtual reality environment utilizing first and second sets of object representations by identifying a common illustrative asset based on the first and second set of object representations. The method further includes rendering the common illustrative asset to produce a set of illustrative asset video frames for selecting a common portion of video frames for the virtual reality environment. The method further includes rendering another representation of the first set of object representations to produce a first remaining portion of the video frames and rendering another representation of the second set of object representations to produce a second remaining portion of the video frames. The method further includes linking the common portion, the first remaining portion, and the second remaining portion of the video frames to produce the virtual reality environment.