Cabinplant — Meat line in motion

Overview of the Cabinplant meat line, conveyors and box routing

The brief

One slide.
One part of the process.

Cabinplant was preparing a presentation for one of their food processing lines, and needed animation to help explain the process. Each shot was designed to loop continuously on its own slide, explaining one part of the meat line while the presenter talked through the process.

The project required close attention to detail. I carefully went through the whole meat line with the client to identify which parts to show and understand what they are doing. Every movement had to mirror how the real system works and connect to the next one seamlessly.

01 / Built for the presentation

Each shot explains one stage of the line.

Meat portions moving along the infeed conveyors

The preparation

Show what matters.
Keep it accurate.

The supplied CAD files provided the machine geometry. I prepared them for animation and chose which components were needed to explain each stage. The aim was to make the process easy to follow while staying true to how the meat line operates.

The choreography

Match the timing.
Keep it running.

The biggest challenge was making the whole line run indefinitely. Each section needed timing as close to the real process as possible, with conveyors, filling stations and containers working together. Those movements also had to repeat without losing their relationship to one another.

Red containers advancing through the meat filling stations

02 / Making repetition believable

Realistic timing meets dynamic simulations.

The development

Believable dynamics.
Repeatable movement.

Rigid motion would have explained the line just as well, but portions that transfer and settle naturally make the whole animation easier to watch. The catch was keeping that behaviour convincing cycle after cycle, without the loop ever showing its seam.

03 / Watch the overview

Presentation sequences compiled / 16:9

One slide.One part of the process.