Space Elevator


Space Elevator

I recently finished a short story within China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion called 'The Rope is the World', in which the first space elevators are built on earth. These mega-structures essentially would carry goods to and from space without the need for rockets.

It made me think back to the elevators in the Halo series, specifically the New Mombasa Space Elevator. I managed to find a SketchUp model someone had created of this and converted it to an OBJ for rendering with Redshift in C4D. I took the footage in Lisbon a couple years ago on an iPhone 6. It's pretty low-res as was shot in slow motion but this made the comping more forgiving. 
The song is Dizzy - 'Stars and Moons'