Extraction
A research driven speculative film creating the visual language and representation for society, habitats, culture, and machines through technical design research, concepting, 3D environment modeling, compositing, and digital matte painting. Extraction focuses on depicting large scale terraforming and the anthropocentric destruction of landscapes.



Kitbashed through unique asset library developed specifically for “Extraction” through 3D depth mapping, photogrammetry, and modeling in Blender. Drawings done in Rhino.
Digital Matte Painting done in Photoshop and Composited in Nuke


What this civilization leaves in the wake of its progress may be the opened and emptied earth, but in performing these incursions we also participate in the unwitting creation of gigantic monuments to our way of life.
– Edward Burtynsky
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