$3.5M Settlement: CSI Animation Captures Catastrophic Fractures After 20-ft Fall

The incident left the worker with seven fractures dispersed throughout his body, necessitating a comprehensive demonstration of his suffering and the impact on his life. The injuries included:

• L5 transverse fracture
• L2 vertebral body fracture
• Right sacral fracture
• Right intertrochanteric femur fracture
• Right inferior pubic ramus fracture
• Left intra-articular comminuted calcaneal fracture
• Right intra-articular comminuted calcaneal fracture

They also needed to demonstrate the surgeries their client would need to undergo throughout his long road to recovery.

We built Mr. Yaraborough and Mr. Claggett a Cinematic Summary of Injuries to explore every angle of each fracture. We recreated each of these fractures using 3D Volumation: a method in which we stack hundreds of radiographic snapshots taken at different depths of the injury. Stacking these snapshots on top of one another enabled us to build an almost perfect 3D rendering of the pelvis fracture. We then clean up the digital image, painted on detailed realism, and fly a digital camera around the 3D replication to show the audience every angle of the client’s damages.

Once we built accurate models of each injury, we not only animated them into the CSI exhibit, but we reused the assets in the surgery animation below depicting each of the procedures the plaintiff experienced.

The animations helped anchor Mr. Yarborough’s case with a powerful visual demonstration of his client’s surgical experience and served as the catalyst for the defense’s decision to settle for $3.5M.