Animated 3D reconstruction has become an invaluable forensic and preventive tool. It allows us to recreate the exact chain of events of an accident with absolute precision, facilitating technical analysis for government industrial safety reports, as well as presenting clear and compelling evidence in courts of law.
The CNESST (Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail) is the government organization in Quebec responsible for managing the occupational health and safety plan. For them, we animated real cases intended for their official workplace accident investigation reports, such as this electrical incident.
Per the client's explicit requirement, the visual treatment adopted a rather schematic and diagrammatic style. The goal was not photorealism, but absolute clarity in transmitting technical data: trajectories, protocol failures, and machinery interaction. This visual synthesis avoids distractions and allows inspectors to focus 100% on the mechanics of the incident.
The need to establish the mechanics of events transcends the industrial environment and becomes crucial on public roads. In this case, a law firm in the United States required us to reconstruct a severe motorcycle accident to be presented as visual evidence in court.
Unlike the schematic CNESST report, a courtroom presentation requires the jury or judge to empathize with and understand the physical context of the incident. Therefore, we evolved the style towards a much more realistic look regarding textures, lighting, and kinematics, while always maintaining the structured nature of 3D animation to ensure the piece is interpreted as a technical reconstruction based on expert data, not an inaccurate dramatization.
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