3D Animation
3D Animation
Discoveries
Discoveries
3D broadcast identity.
A 3D show opener and broadcast package for Discovery Channel, built around the meeting point of nature and technology.
Client
Discovery Channel
Services
Creative Direction, Storyboards, 3D Design, Broadcast Package, Animation
Team Size
Solo Designer & Animator
A 3D show opener and broadcast package for Discovery Channel, built around the meeting point of nature and technology.
A 3D show opener and broadcast package for Discovery Channel, built around the meeting point of nature and technology.
Client
Client
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Services
Services
Creative Direction, Storyboards, 3D Design, Broadcast Package, Animation
Creative Direction, Storyboards, 3D Design, Broadcast Package, Animation
Team Size
Team Size
Solo Designer & Animator
Solo Designer & Animator
My Role
I partnered with the show’s producers and directors to develop the split-world opener, then extended the idea across lower thirds, transitions, and the wider broadcast package.
I partnered with the show’s producers and directors to develop the split-world opener, then extended the idea across lower thirds, transitions, and the wider broadcast package.
Story → Delivery
Story → Delivery
Storyboards
Storyboards
Design Direction
Design Direction
Animation
Animation
Concept
The opener needed to hold a wide range of stories under one recognizable visual idea.
The opener needed to hold a wide range of stories under one recognizable visual idea.
Visual system
A split world—one side organic, one side technological—gave the show a flexible metaphor that could support very different subjects.
A split world—one side organic, one side technological—gave the show a flexible metaphor that could support very different subjects.
Animation & Production
The world was modeled and animated in Cinema 4D at enough fidelity to support the opener and the wider broadcast package.
The world was modeled and animated in Cinema 4D at enough fidelity to support the opener and the wider broadcast package.
Outcome
The result was a reusable 3D identity that could open the show and carry the same nature-and-technology tension across the full package.
The result was a reusable 3D identity that could open the show and carry the same nature-and-technology tension across the full package.