Rick Pearce
Sauropods at a prehistoric lake below mountains and waterfalls

Case 01 / 07 · Film & Animation · Real-Time & Virtual Production · 2026

Age ofDinosaurs

Role
Director / Cinematography / Lighting
Year
2026
Experience
Sandbox VR with the Natural History Museum, London
Format
Game trailer · UE5, CG and live action
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The trailer for Age of Dinosaurs, a Sandbox VR experience with the Natural History Museum, London.

A family suits up in haptic vests, enters a museum after dark and steps through a portal into a living prehistoric world. Live-action performance, CG creatures and Unreal Engine 5 environments cut together as one piece of cinema.

My contribution

Director, cinematographer and lighter on the trailer.

  1. 01Directed the trailer across live-action and CG shots.
  2. 02Set the camera language: lens choice, framing and movement.
  3. 03Lit the Unreal Engine 5 environments and creatures.
  4. 04Designed the environments and staged the action for camera.

Method

Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Imagery
CG creatures and environments with live-action performance
Delivery
Trailer for a location-based VR experience

Frames

A family in haptic vests and VR headsets
A natural history museum hall at night
Dinosaur skeletons in the museum
A family faces a glowing portal
A family looks up in wonder
A cave mouth opens onto a jungle
A green valley under a bright sky
A tyrannosaur in warm evening light
A family shelters as a tyrannosaur roars
A family offers leaves to a stegosaurus
A stegosaurus in a sunlit jungle
A father and son share a moment
A volcano erupts over a prehistoric forest
A pterosaur flies past an erupting volcano

Credits

Director / Cinematography / Lighting
Rick Pearce