Google Earth Timelapse

24 million satellite images from the past 37 years, 2 million hours of rendering done inside Google’s carbon neutral data centers, the new Google Earth Timelapse features time as the 4th dimension to explore our planet.

Done entirely at Creative Lab London, I came up with the visual approach working closely with the engineers, using hacked pre-release versions of Google Earth Studio enabled with experimental features so we could merge separate shots seamlessly, and built the pipeline into After Effects alongside all the data overlays.
I then animated the 3d cameras in Google Earth Studio, rendering on multiple machines, 4k imagery that has been then used for the first time in January at Davos 2020 on the main led screen, which used a 2:1 ratio and a 4k resolution.
I also delivered assets for other screens in Davos, one huge video that was looping between the three main ones and more clips used by scientists.

The project received global media coverage and won a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions, a D&AD Yellow Pencil & two Wood Pencils, The One Show Best of Discipline & Gold Pencil, ADC Gold & Silver Cubes, and a Webby Award for Best Data Visualization.

Role: Visual Approach, Experimental Earth Studio Pipeline & Motion Design.