Hexon

Hexon is a quarterly festival in west Germany on a sci-fi direction: industrial, mechanical, chrome and red. One machine is built properly, then warped until the context turns artistic.

Every event gets a new machine, and a build this dense holds up from anywhere, so it is covered from seven angles: the hero, the wide pass below, and five verticals cut for stories and screens. Nothing is re-staged between them. The camera moves, the machine does not.

The January edition trades the chrome for white enamel and threads red cable through every gap in the frame. It is the first Hexon machine that was grown rather than modelled.

AutoMech is a Blender addon I built for this. I draw a rough shape in the viewport and it kitbashes into it from my own part libraries: big forms first, then detail, every part seated on a hole, pin or flat face of another. Each placement is tested before it stays, the red flashes are the tries that clashed, and the build mirrors itself as it grows. A new art directed machine per edition takes minutes.