The Dinosaurs — Netflix, March 2026

Something I’ve been quietly carrying for a while is out in the world now.

The Dinosaurs landed on Netflix yesterday. We, the team at Lux Aeterna, built a significant portion of the visual architecture of the series: globe work, data-driven animated landscapes, low earth orbit sequences, deep space, meteor shots. The kind of work that doesn’t announce itself. The kind that needs to feel inevitable, not constructed.

Seeing it on a big screen the night before release, alongside extraordinary work from ILM, was genuinely moving. Not in a way I was prepared for.

This was the first major project I threw myself into after a difficult period in my life. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at the time, I just got my head down and worked. The low earth orbit shots, the sense of geological scale, the patience required to make a landscape feel like it has memor, I was inside all of that before I understood why it mattered to me.

Watching it last night I remembered exactly who I was when I made those shots. And I’m glad I made them well.

Proud of everyone involved. Go watch it.

15th April 2021

Today was the first time in 388 days I have been to central Bristol (and the office). Very strange/wonderful/overwhelming/chaotic. But, hopefully, a new beginning. Maybe see you soon. Thanks to everyone for making it as easy as possible.

Commencing Malthouse

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A good day yesterday moving into the new BDH space and getting everything up and on line. What is visible here is only about a third to quarter the area we have but the but the rest of it is still being developed.

Apologies for blurry images they were taken in a rush.

Our Planet | Teaser [HD]

A first look at a big new project we’ve been working on.
More on it here:

Our Planet will take viewers on a spectacular journey of discovery showcasing the beauty and fragility of our natural world,” Attenborough said as the series was announced on Thursday. “Today we have become the greatest threat to the health of our home but there’s still time for us to address the challenges we’ve created if we act now. We need the world to pay attention.”

Secrets of Brain Health – (Electric Dreams)

This is a two minute extract of Secrets of Brain Health presentation at We The Curious Digital Dome, 2nd July2018.

At BDH we worked with scientists at Clinical Research and Imaging Centre the University of Bristol, taking the raw data from 3D volume MRI brain scans and, using MEL scripting and Maya turning it into usable, but accurate models of thought patterns and brain activity that could then be treated and rendered in Maya and Cinema 4D to create these visualisations.

 

Earth: One Amazing Day

Earth: One Amazing Day, which we at BDH Creative worked on with BASE FX in Beijing, is currently available on the BBC iPlayer, and will be until around the 16th July 2018.

From the BDH website:

“Earth: One Amazing Day showcases the remarkable stories that happen on earth, our home, each and every day, driven by the power of the Sun. It takes audiences on a breath-taking and immersive voyage across the continents, through the oceans and skies as it tracks the sun’s journey…all in a single amazing day.”

We got individual credits so it got added to our IMDB page which is always 👌.