Halon Entertainment helped preserve the world’s largest animal using LiDAR, photogrammetry, and a healthy respect for marine anatomy. We sat down with Halon's Andrew Ritter and Jess Marley to unpack the technical choices, on-site surprises, and what it takes to turn a blue whale into a rigged digital asset ready for AR.
Jess Marley is a creative supervisor at Halon Entertainment with a background in virtual production, realtime workflows, and Unreal Engine toolsets. For the Ms. Blue project, he initiated the digital preservation effort, led the scanning strategy, and oversaw asset creation from phone scan to AR-ready whale.
Andrew Ritter serves as producer at Halon Entertainment, with experience managing CG and technical teams across previs, virtual production, and VFX. For Ms. Blue, he coordinated field capture, data processing, and technical integration—ensuring the whale didn’t swim off mid-pipeline.
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