Into the Volcano

Immersive Installation · 270°
2025

Normal Studio

Perlan Museum, Reykjavík

A 270° museum experience combining volcanic footage with digital landscapes prepared for close, large-format viewing.

Role

3D Artist — High-Resolution Photographic Cleanup

Tools

PhotoshopCinema 4D / BodyPaint

Overview

Into the Volcano is an immersive experience at the Perlan Museum in Reykjavík. I joined near the end of production to clean and retouch high-resolution photographic resources for one scene, before their integration by the team.

My Contribution

Cleaned and retouched 16K photographic textures on a high-resolution mesh, removing unwanted visual elements.
Established a working method using Photoshop and BodyPaint in Cinema 4D to carry out the cleanup, and wrote instructions to support my work.
Prepared the cleaned resources for handoff before their integration into the final environment.

Pipeline

Review of the photographic resources
Setup of the Photoshop / BodyPaint workflow
Targeted cleanup and retouching
Preparation for handoff

Technical Challenges

Challenge — working with 16K textures on a high-resolution mesh exceeded the practical limits of Substance Painter for this task.
Production response — I established a cleanup workflow combining Photoshop and BodyPaint in Cinema 4D, with written instructions for the steps involved.
Result — this method allowed me to carry out the photographic cleanup with the tools available.

Recognition

Prix NUMIX 2026 — Winner, International · Exhibition

Project Impact

My contribution was the cleanup and preparation of photographic resources for the immersive presentation; environment creation and final integration were handled by the team.

Project Credits

Multimedia Director: Tommy Caron. Lead Environment Artist: Charly Tempez. Lead Tech Artist: Victor Kawajigashi. Production: Normal Studio.

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