Experiential, Film / 2024

Pink Earth


Client

Jennifer Chen

Scope

Creative Technology, 3D and 2D Motion, Compositing, Matte Painting

Collaborators

RAW x Jennifer Chen

Tools

Unreal Engine, After Effects

Tags

Short Film, 3D, Animation, Remote Sensing

Project Summary

Pink Earth is a cinematic portrait of our planet as seen from orbiting satellites in the era of Planet City—a speculative future in which humanity retreats to one dense metropolis, allowing Earth’s ecosystems to heal. Told entirely from the perspective of a remote sensing satellite, the film repurposes Landsat and Sentinel data, time-lapse imagery, false-color imaging, and data simulations to map Earth’s transformation from the arrival of the first boats at Planet City to the departure of the last. Pink Earth reframes remote sensing as both an observational and myth-making tool, inviting us to imagine the planet’s future from a perspective that is detached yet deeply human.        

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Credits

        Film Production - Fear & Wonder
        Direction - Jennifer Chen
        Animation - RAWx
        Matte Painters / 3D Artists / Animators - Santiago Ceballos, Luis Garcia Grech, Orin Torati
        Digital Artists - Dave Barbeau, Trey Marshall, Sukanya Mukherjee, Arnar Skarphedinsson
        Tapestry Weaver - FiberArt
        Researchers - Dave Barbeau, Breanna Browning, Santiago Ceballos, Luis Garcia Grech, 
                                     Saleh Jamsheer, Trey Marshall, Sukanya Mukherjee, Arnar Skarphedinsson
        Supported By - Google Artist + Machine Intelligence