History’s Greatest Mysteries
History’s Greatest Mysteries is a documentary television series by The History Channel, hosted and narrated by Laurence Fishburne. Episodes range from investigations of famous historical events, crimes, disappearances, conspiracy theories & myths , as well as ancient enigmas. During my internship with BGSTR, I was able to create a range of graphics for the shows 7th season, below are episodes I worked the most on.
s7 e8: who is the boston strangler?
Models were sourced from Daz3D & posed/rigged in C4D. Toon shading techniques in Redshift were used to create a look reminiscent of x-rays, by featuring white outlines and porcelain mannequins. The crime scenes for this case were very graphic and sexual in nature, so the challenge with recreating the scenes for general audiences was to frame compositions in a way that wasn’t explicit, but still conveyed the obscenity of the crime committed.
s7 e18: The hunt for osama bin laden
All the map graphics for this show were created using satellite images from Mapbox that were treated in Photoshop. For the 3D bespokes in this episode, I was tasked with designing a toy-box like miniature diorama to depict the scenes described. I was provided with blueprint images of Osama’s hideout to recreate in C4D. Once designs were approved, files were handed off to an animator.