In November 2009, armoured truck driver Tony Musulin vanished with €11 million. Fifteen years later, Simon Puech, a French content creator known for his work on geopolitical and social issues, set out to unravel the case and to show the demanding working conditions of the job. He asked me to reconstruct the story in 3D for his video.
Simon's content sits between brutalism and minimalism, so the visuals had to balance realism, graphic styling and a clear narrative. The video was due in two weeks, which made for a tight deadline.
I chose monochrome, highly textured realistic scenes, with crash test dummies standing in for the people and touches of red to guide the eye. To match the documentary's pace without breaking its flow, the characters move through fades. I rebuilt the armoured van from photographs alone, with no blueprints, and recreated the locations from Google Maps and from a film that told the same story eleven years earlier.
