SEE THE LIGHT
WWII Museum Immersion Experience
Transforming shared history into immersive animation with generative AI
Project Overview
“SEE THE LIGHT” is a commemorative light installation and projection activity created for the WWII Tunnels in Darwin, Australia, and the Battlebox Museum in Singapore. As the final piece of the museum experience, we designed a 10-minute looping generative animation that visitors would watch just before exiting back to the modern world.
Using a singular beam of light as a narrative thread, the animation creates a shared commemorative timeline linking pivotal WWII events. The experience invites reflection, remembrance, and renewed cultural exchange, culminating in a solemn scroll of names remembering the fallen.
The Challenge
The client tasked us with making the seemingly impossible, possible. We faced a series of significant constraints:
The project was only feasible through the strategic use of new AI generative technology, proving a professional-quality narrative could be achieved against all odds.
Our Process: A Fusion of AI Power and Human Expertise
A complex workflow that blended cutting-edge AI with deep industry experience.
The Human Touch
While AI provided the raw power, our 20+ years of experience in traditional animation and video was the essential glue that held the project together.
All critical creative decisions: shot selection, final editing, color grading, and sound design, were guided by human expertise. Led by Emily Dawidowicz, whose background includes a BFA, Classical Art History training, post-graduate degree in Digital Media Arts, and 23 years of hands-on animation and compositing experience.
The Results
— Client Response
This project demonstrates how strategic AI implementation combined with decades of creative expertise can achieve the impossible. We didn’t just create a museum piece, we crafted a bridge between history and hearts, connecting visitors across cultures through shared remembrance.