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Reclaimed waste rock storage facility rendered in 3D, grassed slopes running down to a water body held in a rock basin under heavy cloud
Work

Work

Organized by the problem you’re facing, not the technique we used. Thirteen projects across mining, energy, utilities and public infrastructure.

Public hearings & consultation

03 projects
3D render of three caribou standing on rocky tundra, with a mine site and water visible on the horizon behind them
Public hearings & consultation

Wildlife migration overpass

Showing a community how infrastructure and a caribou herd coexist.

3D stills · Consultation
3D render of a blue pump station building on a Hudson Bay shoreline, pipes running from it across low tundra to the water
Public hearings & consultation

Shoreline pump station

Approved by the community that saw it first.

3D stills · Community approval
Proposed wind turbine on a forested ridge at sunset, with more turbines behind it
Public hearings & consultation

Wind energy

Turbines on the actual landscape, at the scale they will be built.

Animation · Photogrammetry

Permitting & regulatory review

03 projects
3D render of an open-pit mine with benched walls, the pit partly filled with water and a survey mesh overlaid across the far slope
Permitting & regulatory review

Open-pit mining

More than a decade of visualization supporting permits, consultation, and planning at operating mines.

3D stills · Flyovers
3D render of a corrugated culvert discharging beneath a rock embankment on open tundra, with a caribou in the distance
Permitting & regulatory review

Culverts & waterways

Watercourse crossings, shown in cross-section and in flow.

3D visualization · Water
Proposed transmission line corridor crossing forested terrain
Permitting & regulatory review

Powerlines & transmission

A proposed route, flown before it’s built.

Flyover · Route study

Closure & reclamation

02 projects
Haul truck on a road cut into the wall of an open pit
Closure & reclamation

Mine closures & reclamation

Showing a closure plan as the landscape it will become.

Animation · Photogrammetry
Simulated water around a sand spit, with trees on the point beyond
Closure & reclamation

Water visualization

Physically simulated water: flow, fill, and interaction with terrain.

Simulation · Animation

Safety & training

01 project
3D flythrough view of an underground mine corridor
Safety & training

Underground mining safety

3D flythroughs of underground workings for safety and training.

Flythrough · Training

Technical & subsea

02 projects
3D render of a cylindrical sonar unit resting on the sea floor in clear green-blue water, underwater caustics playing across its lid
Technical & subsea

Underwater sonar

Modelled to sub-millimetre accuracy and used in place of photographs.

Technical 3D · Subsea
3D render of a pipeline running along the ocean floor into blue water, light shafts falling through the surface above it
Technical & subsea

Underwater diffuser

Making invisible infrastructure visible.

Subsea · 3D stills

Capabilities

02 projects
Drone photogrammetry model of a farm property and the terrain around it
Capabilities

Landscape scans & photogrammetry

The terrain in our models is the real terrain.

Photogrammetry · 3D terrain
Lakeside site image animated as a motion study
Capabilities

Motion studies

Bringing existing stills and site photography into motion.

Image-to-video

Start with a location and whatever reference material you have.

That’s usually enough for us to start scoping the project. We’ll come back with an approach, the technical inputs we need, a timeline, and a quote.

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