I worked with the team at Graafika to help visualize and recreate this historic disaster for PBS’s American Experience. My role in this project was predominantly to model and animate 3D ‘line art’ style renders of the dam.
American Experience | Flood in the Desert
One of the most dramatic failures of American infrastructure took place in the California desert in 1928. There were no surviving witnesses of the St. Francis Dam collapse, and it has taken engineers and historians years to piece together the events leading up to and during the event.