Future Relics (2019)

[Cinema4D, Redshift, Octane]

Future Relics is an exploration of the demise of a civilization in an dystopian future. Archival data from the not yet lost, space faring colonies of humanity has been made it's way into our hands. Through data logs we are attempting to piece together what happened and what went wrong so our humanity can avoid the same fate.

Process

For a period spanning six months, I created a random pieces inside of Cinema4D. No overarching plotlines, no ideas in my brain. Eyes closed, head empty. The goal was to create an entire catalogue of pieces, and just sort of... see what I got. What ended up with was a couple of the pieces coming toghether in my head to create he feeling of a grand sci-fi story, with some German romanticist visuals sprinkled in. Wanting to avoid the ease and commonality of just writing a companion piece about this world, I chose to subvert the way I told this story. I wanted to make it a discovery and that's how the data logs came to be. Slivers of a story, connected toghether in one big web. However, alone, they are simply moments in time, fragments of this universe I created.