Computer Animation of Helicopter Tragedy
Kitchen Sink Studios, Adria’s place of employment, was recently asked to develop a video re-enactment of a helicopter crash involving two local television news copters.
It was a day that will forever live in the minds of Phoenix residents, when an unthinkable tragedy took the lives of four people who seemed like family members to many in the city.
On July 27, 2007, two television news helicopters crashed into each other while covering a high-speed chase in central Phoenix, killing the crews in both. In the aftermath, it was difficult to determine how something like this could happen — but necessary to resolve the legal issues surrounding the crash.
That’s why Pat McGroder of Gallagher & Kennedy, which represented the victims’ families from the Channel 3 helicopter in the case (Bowerbank/Cox vs. US Helicopters, ET AL.), brought in Kitchen Sink Studios to help.
To me, this is a great example of how design can be used to help solve a real world problem. I’m sure this type of design goes unnoticed every day, but I find KSS’s involvement in this case particularly interesting.
Posted by tanner in motion, social change on 28 July 2009.
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