Unsolved treasure mysteries, holographic particle simulations and pirates?! This project checked all the boxes of our childhood fantasies and immediately made us feel like Goonies from the future, future Goonies. Back in reality, we we’re tasked with creating a kickass promo for the new History show Beyond Oak Island. The spot features the Lagina brothers ready to expand there efforts of unfound treasures beyond the cursed Oak Island. We set sail with concept art, look development, storyboards and animation tests prior to our live action shoot.

After settling on the three featured treasure mysterious for our promo, we set out to create 3 unique environments. The first was a tropical setting on the coast of the Dominican Republic, next we headed out west to Utah in search of Butch Cassidys gold, and finally we went to the depths of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of North Carolina. We began with illustrated concept artwork for each location before heading into 3D look development.

In parallel with our concept artwork we began to nail down the details through the use of storyboards and pre-vis. We wanted to be sure of every last detail to be as efficient as possible while on set with Lagina brothers.

With concept art, pre-vis and look development and now footage in hand we began the process of bringing it all together. We continued to refine beyond the look development as we marched forward.

With each world built we had one last task at hand. Creating slick transitions from world to world as well as the activation and de-activation of our simulations. We did several iterations of tests before landing on the final look.