Memories of Sacrifice — Interactive Mapping

Project: Memories of Sacrifice
Year: 2024
Format: Interactive Mapping
Engine: Unreal Engine
Our role: Concept, 3D, Rigging, Animation, Unreal

How did this project come about? Much like watching this world drift slowly onward for a very long time, from the past to the present.

That sparked the idea we wanted to express through the fury of nature, the forest, and all the things that reflect the story of nature and humankind, seen through the eyes of a visitor.

A spirit zoo where a deer watches in silence: a symbol of death, loneliness and an attachment that never ends. It cannot speak or act. It can only watch, the way the forest and everything in it seems to watch us back.

The World

A cornfield at night, lanterns hung along the path, a campfire and bones left behind, all built in Unreal Engine.

Lantern-lit path through the cornfield at night — The path

Antlered skull mounted on a post in the corn — Totem

Campfire with rising smoke and sparks — The fire

Wooden crate caught in a flashlight beam — Found footage

Crate filled with bones under a flashlight — Remains

Ram skull nailed to a wooden star — Offering

Skeletal deer standing in a misty forest — The watcher

Bones and a watering can at the foot of a post in the corn — Harvest

Bringing the deer to life

We used AI to pull existing animation assets together and blend them, so the deer feels alive.

A physics simulation of an animal model (the deer) made from a point cloud, slowly breaking apart and falling to the ground, shown as a sequence of frames over time.

Physics simulation · 15s

Unreal · Blend test