3D Explainer Video

Pyro Media

2022

Objective

Create a 3D industrial safety animation to educate workers on critical protocols for maintaining a safe environment in high-voltage electrical centers, emphasizing hazard prevention, emergency procedures, and equipment handling.

My Role

As part of the 3D explainer video project with Pyro Media, I was responsible for environmental modeling, setting up the environment, and animating scenes. My work involved creating detailed and realistic environments that aligned with the client’s vision. Throughout the three-week project, I collaborated with the client to implement minor and incremental changes, ensuring that the final animation accurately conveyed the intended message and product focus.

Timeframe

3 weeks

Execution

Built a hyper-realistic electrical control room in Blender, complete with transformers, switchgear, and insulated tools, ensuring scale and spatial accuracy for training relevance.
Worked closely with Pyro Media and electrical safety experts to ensure technical accuracy, refining details like voltage warning placards and emergency exit signage.
Iterated on feedback to balance dramatic impact with instructional clarity, such as toning down explosive effects to avoid overshadowing procedural steps.

Impact

The animation was adopted as a core training tool for the client’s corporate safety program, reducing onboarding time for new technicians by 30%. Pyro Media highlighted how the project’s pre-visualization phase allowed rapid testing of complex scenarios, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards without costly reshoots.

Creative Approach

To convey the gravity of workplace safety without sacrificing engagement, I anchored the animation in realistic, high-stakes scenarios and contrast-driven visual storytelling. The narrative juxtaposes safe practices (vivid, controlled visuals) with potential dangers (stark, high-contrast sequences), using symbolic elements like glowing hazard zones, animated warning icons, and procedural breakdowns of lockout-tagout (LOTO) systems. A muted industrial palette—punctuated by urgent reds and caution yellows—visually reinforces risk areas, while fluid transitions guide viewers through step-by-step safety checks.

Final Thought

Safety isn’t just about rules—it’s about visualizing consequences. By merging technical accuracy with gripping storytelling, we turned protocols into muscle memory and risks into reverence.