Abandoned Inventions Season 1
A factual series hunting down history's most radical and dangerous inventions — technologies abandoned, forgotten, or deliberately erased — brought back to life through CGI reconstruction, expert testimony, and rare archive footage.
Abandoned Inventions asks what happens to the breakthroughs history chose to bury. Season 1 digs into hidden archives, forgotten workshops, and abandoned test sites for technologies that might have changed the world — if they hadn't been erased, shelved, or deemed too dangerous. From Project Pluto, the Cold War's nuclear-powered "flying Chernobyl," to Project Habakkuk, Churchill's dream of an unsinkable ice ship, and Russia's colossal Tsar Tank, the series sorts fact from legend across ten one-hour episodes.
Our VFX mandate was to reconstruct machines that barely exist in the historical record. Incomplete blueprints, classified fragments, and grainy test footage became fully realised CG builds — doomsday devices, ice carriers, and weapons no modern workshop could recreate without the period context. Every reconstruction had to read as engineering first and spectacle second: accurate enough for expert scrutiny, cinematic enough for broadcast.
Commissioned by Boat Rocker and produced by Shark Teeth Films, Season 1 delivered at the end of 2025 as a ten-part factual package. The open — ABI OPEN — establishes the series' visual language: photorealistic invention builds, archival texture, and the same reconstruction pipeline that powers the broader Shark Teeth factual slate.
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Series open — ABI OPEN establishing the show's photorealistic invention-reconstruction aesthetic.
Building Bad — sister Shark Teeth factual series sharing the same criminal-and-engineering CG toolkit.
Secrets in the Ice S3 — parallel factual reconstruction pipeline applied to polar archaeology.
Secrets in the Sand — desert-environment sister series demonstrating the pipeline's range.
Secrets in the Ice S3 broadcast trailer — same modular environment and artefact VFX approach.
Factual VFX Reel — decade of reconstruction work including the invention and engineering sequences.
Secrets in the Sand official open — companion factual title design and archaeological montage language.
Engineering-scale CG environment — the same large-structure simulation used for abandoned military builds.
Series open — ABI OPEN establishing the show's photorealistic invention-reconstruction aesthetic.
Building Bad — sister Shark Teeth factual series sharing the same criminal-and-engineering CG toolkit.
Secrets in the Ice S3 — parallel factual reconstruction pipeline applied to polar archaeology.
Secrets in the Sand — desert-environment sister series demonstrating the pipeline's range.
Secrets in the Ice S3 broadcast trailer — same modular environment and artefact VFX approach.
Factual VFX Reel — decade of reconstruction work including the invention and engineering sequences.
Secrets in the Sand official open — companion factual title design and archaeological montage language.
Engineering-scale CG environment — the same large-structure simulation used for abandoned military builds.
Series open — ABI OPEN establishing the show's photorealistic invention-reconstruction aesthetic.
Building Bad — sister Shark Teeth factual series sharing the same criminal-and-engineering CG toolkit.
Secrets in the Ice S3 — parallel factual reconstruction pipeline applied to polar archaeology.
Secrets in the Sand — desert-environment sister series demonstrating the pipeline's range.
Secrets in the Ice S3 broadcast trailer — same modular environment and artefact VFX approach.
Factual VFX Reel — decade of reconstruction work including the invention and engineering sequences.
Secrets in the Sand official open — companion factual title design and archaeological montage language.
Engineering-scale CG environment — the same large-structure simulation used for abandoned military builds.
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