Data film

Aurora Grid

Two minutes on how a power grid predicts demand, told with a field of bars that rises with the city’s evening load.

Two minutes on how a power grid predicts demand, told with a field of bars that rises with the city’s evening load.

Role

Art direction, 3D

Team

Team of 5 · with Havn Studio

Duration

2 min explainer

Tools

Blender, Geometry Nodes, Python, After Effects

Awards

Behance Motion feature

Year

2024

The story

What the grid knows

The brief

Aurora Grid forecasts electricity demand for Nordic utilities. Their story lived in charts that only engineers enjoyed. They wanted investors to feel the evening peak in a room.

What I made

Each bar is a neighbourhood and its height is real load data from a winter week, driven by a Python script so the numbers are honest. The peak glows tomato red as it crosses the grid’s limit, then settles as the forecast shifts demand to the night.

Scroll the shot apart

Clay · light · colour · final

Breakdown · the first frame of this site

One frame, five passes

  1. 01Clay
    Form and light only
  2. 02Clay
  3. 03Light
    The sun alone, no colour
  4. 04Colour
    Materials and grade
  5. 05Final
    As delivered
Pass 01 · Clay
00:00:00:0016 spp

Close-up · the same sun, a longer lens

Clay pass · approved before any colour

The result

Used in the company’s Series B deck and on the stage at their investor day.

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