Forensic Animation

You need to depict an ignition sequence. Show how an explosion occurred. Describe how thermal runaway compromised a lithium-ion battery. Illustrate how an appliance works—and exactly how it failed. Demonstrate a scientific process like combustion or pyrolysis. Show the human actions involved in a crime or claim.

Words only go so far. Clients, attorneys, judges, and juries are visual learners. Explain a complex event or scientific concept verbally and they may struggle to construct a clear mental picture. Show them, and they understand and remember.

Seeing is Believing

When the stakes are high, clarity wins cases. Forensic animation is your ace in the hole. Stonehouse Media translates complex forensic data and analysis into precise, scientifically accurate forensic animations. Although what those animations depict can be dramatic, we aren’t in it for the Hollywood drama. We reconstruct the events based on the evidence, available data, and your expert analysis so other parties can understand your expert conclusions and the underlying evidence. Our forensic animations create that critical lightbulb moment — “Ah, I get it!”

Strip away the guesswork and make the truth unmistakable. Let us help you show exactly what happened.

Why Partner with Stonehouse Media for Forensic Animation?

With a 30-year history of producing training and educational content for organizations like the IAAI, ATF, NFFF, U.S. Secret Service, NVFC, CFSI, and CVVFA-ERSI, we are far more than just an animation house.

We understand the science and analytical techniques behind what you are trying to show. There’s no learning curve with us. We get it. Our deep background in producing evidence collection and analysis, fire ignition sequences, and explosion dynamics content combined with decades of 3D animation experience for television and film, enables us to deliver forensic animations that are:

• High impact: Designed to capture and hold attention to drive home your key points.
• Forensically accurate: Built with precise dimensions, surface appearances, physics, mechanics, and physical phenomena dynamics.
• Educational and persuasive: Crafted to bridge the gap between expert knowledge and layperson comprehension.
• Expert-vetted: Developed collaboratively and reviewed by your subject-matter experts at key milestones.
• Broadcast-quality production value: Polished with professional modeling, lighting, texturing, and rendering.

Stonehouse Media’s impeccable track record makes us:

• Trusted: Chosen by the world’s leading fire service and investigative organizations to produce their critical content.
• Experienced: Produced more than 200 training programs illustrating complex processes, scenarios, and scientific and technical concepts.
• Grounded: Skilled at simplifying complex and technical scenarios for laypeople without losing scientific integrity.
• Collaborative: Experienced working with hundreds of experts over decades to translate their expertise into education and training.
• Versatile: Offering different styles from photorealistic to stylized, including 3D and 2D.
• Confidential: Your case data, hypotheses, and proprietary insights are secure with us.

Endless Possibilities

Our forensic animations support civil and criminal litigation at every stage, including origin and cause conclusions, settlement negotiations, charging decisions, depositions, Frye and Daubert hearings, expert testimony, and demonstrative evidence. We can help you visually communicate:

• Complete event sequence visualizations
• Ignition scenarios
• Fire, explosion, and crime sequences
• Fire development, propagation, and flow dynamics
• Failure analysis modeling
• Human actions and interactions and their associated evidence
• Visual event timelines
• Evidence maps
• Technical “how it works” and failure explainers
• Appliances, electronic devices, and consumer products
• Motor vehicles
• Lithium-ion batteries
• Photovoltaic (solar) cells and systems
• Smart home networks
• Physical phenomena like fire dynamics, explosion dynamics, the fire tetrahedron, combustion, and pyrolysis
• Forensics
• How forensic analysis was conducted
• How evidence was interpreted
• What forensic analysis conclusions mean

Ready to bring clarity to your next case?

Reach out for a consultation or conversation and download our one-sheet to share with your team.