EXCERPTS FROM ANIMATION PROJECTS
Drone-based photogrammetry was used to generate a portion of King’s Canyon National Park where two students drove their rental car off the edge of a cliff.
We provided a kinematic analysis of a slip and fall incident to support the testifying biomechanical/human factors expert.
We rented a small boat at sunrise to acquire drone imagery of Molokini crater near Maui where a snorkling/diving boat got caught in a squall resulting in a death and several serious injuries.
33 people were killed when a fire broke out at an Oakland warehouse artist’s collective known as the Ghost Ship. We produced an interactive 3D exhibit for the prosecution to use at trial.
Several techniques were used to build an accurate model of a Norfolk Southern railroad yard in Chicago for a case involving a worker who was run over by a reacher-stacker during the night shift.
We are often tasked with producing accurate human kinematic models to present injury sequences such as the excerpts shown above.
This is an excerpt from a trial animation for a case involving an exploding rifle. The owner was sold ammunition with a slightly bigger caliber than specified for its barrel. While using the weapon for target practice, the first round fired ruptured the barrel and gun stock, causing terrible injuries to the owner’s face.
Two locomotives were parked in a railroad yard on tracks that were improperly positioned too close to the main line. A conductor-trainee was riding on a boxcar ladder at night not realizing there would be only 7 inches of clearance at the narrowest point of passing. We used drone imagery to build an accurate version of the yard and the track geometry.
We have produced many demonstrative animations for aviation litigation using flight recorder data and ground radar to recreate flight paths and attitude.
This is an example of camera tracking from a case that occurred in Texas involving an extremely wide load trailer being transported on a two-lane highway. We shot the footage using a windshield-mounted camera at the plaintiff’s eye level and composited in the oncoming vehicles using 3D models after tracking the footage.
This is the cctv footage from two cameras documenting a road rage incident in which the driver of a Volkswagen Vanagon runs over a pedestrian. We used camera-matching to photogrammetrically reconstruct the vehicle motion paths and pedestrian movements shown in the next clip below.
Camera-matched reconstruction from cctv footage above showing a fatal road rage incident that took place in Ventura, California.