Un(re)solved is a major initiative that draws upon more than two years of reporting, thousands of documents, and dozens of first-hand interviews. The multiplatform investigation tells the stories of lives cut short, and examines a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings through the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. It is told through a web-based interactive experience, serialized podcast, augmented-reality installation, and documentary. In addition, the project makes available to the public for the first time a comprehensive interactive list of all those whose cases were re-examined by the Department of Justice.
Un(re)solved tells the stories of lives cut short and examines a federal effort to investigate more than 150 cold cases that date back to the civil rights era. Enter a forest of quilted memories to learn about four people whose untimely deaths are being re-examined as part of a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings through the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
I worked on the web-based interactive portion of this Multimedia project under the company Ado Ato and the direction of Tamara Shogalou. For the duration of my time on the project, I did much of the animation, compositing, color styling, texturing, and some blender tests and assets.
This project premiered at Tribeca in 2021, is the winner of the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Media: Innovation, and is the winner of the 2022 Innovation award at SXSW.
Screen recording snippet of playthrough
Some video files and snippets of animation, compositing, and texturing I worked on
Roman Ducksworth Jr.
For these Roman Ducksworth Jr. scenes, I made all the animations, backgrounds, coloring and texturing. I also composited the scenes together.
(storyboards by Nathan Fernee, some color editing and lighting edits by Tash Dupker)
Nathan's storyboard with archival photo incorporated (left), my final color and texture pass (right)
Alberta Jones
For this Alberta Jones scene, I animated the feathers, colored and shaded all the animation of the sisters, composited, and textured the scene.
(uncolored animation of sisters done by Yuri Jang, storyboards by Nathan Fernee and Yuri Jang, some color/texture editing and lighting edits by Tash Dupker)
For this Alberta Jones scene, I did the animation, colored and shaded all elements, composited, and textured the scene.
(storyboards by Yuri Jang, some color/texture editing and lighting edits by Tash Dupker)
Yuri's storyboard with archival photo incorporated (left), my final color and texture pass (right)
Jimmie Lee Jackson
For this Jimmie Lee Jackson scene, I did the animation, colored and shaded all elements, composited, and textured the scene. I also redrew some storyboards.
(storyboards by Yuri Jang and me, some color/texture editing and lighting edits by Tash Dupker)
Peter Francis
For this Peter Francis scene, I did the animation, colored and shaded all elements, composited, and textured the scene.
(storyboards by Nathan Fernee, some background coloring and lighting edits by intern Kea Pederson under my direction)
For this Peter Francis scene, I did most of the animation including the basket and house, did final coloring and shading, composited, and textured the scene.
(storyboards by Nathan Fernee, animation by me and Nathan Fernee, some animation and compositing and lighting edits by Marijn Karsten)
Some quilt textures I made for the film
Below is some color work I did for Blender forest assets
(additional shading was done by Marijn Karsten)
(uncolored untextured tree for reference below)
Credits
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Tamara Shogaolu
Tamara Shogaolu
LINE PRODUCERS
Jamari Perry
Crystal Whaley
Jamari Perry
Crystal Whaley
PRODUCERS
Riyad Alnwili
Marcela Stolzmann
Riyad Alnwili
Marcela Stolzmann
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Kuca Sandrin
Kuca Sandrin
ANIMATORS & ILLUSTRATORS
Alice Bindloss, 2D Animator
Tash Dupker, 2D Animator & Illustrator
Nathan Fernée, 2D Animator & Illustrator
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma, 2D Animator
Yuri Jang, 2D Animator
Marijn Karsten, 3D Generalist
James Wright, 3D Generalist
Alice Bindloss, 2D Animator
Tash Dupker, 2D Animator & Illustrator
Nathan Fernée, 2D Animator & Illustrator
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma, 2D Animator
Yuri Jang, 2D Animator
Marijn Karsten, 3D Generalist
James Wright, 3D Generalist
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
Peach Rizzo
Samantha Macin
Peach Rizzo
Samantha Macin