CRYPTIC EVEREST

2017 | Speculative Design / Arrival part-2 Film Concept

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Cryptic Everest is a speculative visual exploration developed as a proposal for a possible continuation of the movie Arrival.

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The project imagined six encounters unfolding across the Himalayas, exploring the relationship between an unknown presence, extreme landscapes and the human body.

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The forms were sculpted manually in ZBrush, rendered in KeyShot, and composed in Photoshop. Developed before the emergence of generative AI, the work was an exercise in constructing an entire visual world through digital modelling, rendering and image-making.

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The proposal was presented and discussed with the film's creative team, but was ultimately not developed for the film.