TKH Security

TKH Security wanted a single showcase animation that could sell both halves of their new parking guidance system to clients and at trade conventions. One half is the security office: an officer watches every camera in the garage on a bank of curved monitors, and an AI system automatically flags suspicious activity and pushes alerts straight to their phone. The other half is the driver's experience: TKH's M5 smart-sensors track every space in real time and guide the driver, level by level, straight to a free spot. The animation needed to make both sides feel connected, as one system, and work as a 360 VR experience for headsets on the show floor as well as a flat video for pitching to new or potential clients.

I split the project into two Blender files, a garage scene and an office scene, and linked them together rather than building everything in one file. Vehicles, the car's cockpit interior, and the human arm rig were each kept in their own file too and linked in as libraries, so the heavy asset libraries didn't have to live inside the main scenes.

Most of the garage structure (road markings, barriers, signage, pillars, terrain, trees) is built with procedural setups rather than modeled by hand, so I could adjust the layout without remodeling everything each time. TKH's own hardware, the M5 sensors and overhead signage, was modeled from their reference photos so it reads as their actual product rather than a generic stand-in. For the office, I used a rig to animate the character's hands typing, picking up the phone, and reacting to the AI alert, and built the six monitor screens as emissive materials playing pre-rendered video, so the UI, camera feeds, and alert all play back in sync with the animation instead of being composited on top afterward. The 360 camera itself doesn't move by hand either. It rides an invisible path through the garage, so the drive stays smooth and repeatable.

A 4:53 minute 360 animation delivered in two formats: a full equirectangular version for VR headsets, and a flattened 2D 4K cut for showing on a regular screen. It opens in the security office, follows the AI catching a flagged vehicle, then shifts to the driver's seat as the car enters the garage and gets guided level by level to an open space using TKH's M5 indicators and signage. The clips below are shorter excerpts pulled from both cuts rather than the full 4:53 minutes.

The animation is still in active use at conventions and in meetings with new and potential clients, shown both in VR on headsets and as a flat video on-screen. It was well received internally at TKH Security as a way to explain a fairly technical product (a camera-based sensor network) in a way that's immediately visual and easy to follow.