Building Bad Season 1

Building Bad is a true-crime engineering series that asks a simple, provocative question: what happens when brilliant minds go bad? Season 1's ten episodes examine some of the most audacious criminal engineering ever documented — Colombian narco-submarines built in jungle clearings, Italian Mafia assassination drones, the engineering behind Pablo Escobar's escape routes, and the physics of history's most daring diamond heists.

Our VFX mandate was to make the invisible visible. Where archival footage was absent or classified, we rebuilt the criminal engineering in photorealistic CG — the cramped interior of a narco-sub, the mechanical complexity of a tunnel boring machine used for drug smuggling, the structural ingenuity of Alcatraz's most famous escape. The work had to be technically accurate, visually arresting, and above all credible.

Season 1 aired on Crave (Bell Media Canada) and Prime Video from March through June 2025, earning strong audience numbers and a renewal. The VFX package — ten episodes, delivered on a broadcast schedule — represents some of the most technically demanding factual work in our catalogue.