WORK — CASE STUDY · THE COMPETITION
D2 BRIDGE
No client, no brief, no deadline but our own — the piece the studio made to find out how far it could push a single frame.
SCENE 01 — THE PIECE
A bridge
nobody ordered.
D2 was not commissioned. It began as a competition entry and stayed a studio piece — a cable-stayed span rising out of cloud, lit from underneath, with no site plan to obey and no sales argument to serve. Every decision in it is an authorship decision.
The still placed third in the competition and was nominated at the CGarchitect Architectural Visualization Awards in 2023. The film that came out of it now runs as the opening sequence of this site.
THE RECOGNITION
Third place in the D2 competition, and a nomination at the CGarchitect Architectural Visualization Awards — the industry’s own jury, voting on images made by people who make images.
ACT I
The Image
One frame, and everything in it argued over.
The whole piece is an argument about light. The cloud is lit from below so the structure reads as a silhouette against its own glow; the cables are spaced to catch that light and nothing else. There is no context to lean on — no city, no skyline, no staffage doing the emotional work. What is left has to carry it alone.
I / 01 — FRAMES
Stills pulled from the sequence: the approach, the span, the deck, the light coming through.
ACT II
The Motion
The same frame, given sixty-six seconds.
The film moves the camera through the structure the still could only imply — under the deck, along the cables, out into open cloud. It is also the reason this site opens the way it does: the sequence on the home page is this film, taken apart frame by frame and handed to the scroll.
FINAL CUT — WHAT WAS DELIVERED
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