Animation3D / BlenderPythonFilm

The Bible Project — Episode 01: A Love That Obeyed

A Blender-animated retelling of Matthew Chapter 1, told from Joseph's side.

Role: 3D artist · environment, animation and technical direction
When: 2026 — in production
Tools: Blender, Python

Description

An animated retelling of Matthew Chapter 1 — the first episode of a planned series. It follows the story from Joseph's perspective: the discovery, the fear, the dream, and the decision to obey.

The episode is built in seven scenes, with six weekly post-production passes layered on top: the opening flythrough of the world, Mary's reveal, the vine, the beam of light, the passing of three days, and the approach.

The six weekly passes

A flythrough over the walled compound — the tiled house, the fence and a meadow of flowers under a blue sky. — Week 1 — Building the World. The compound this website is built from: the same house, fence and meadow you walk through at /world.

Mary's tree in full white blossom against a deep orange sky, with the compound rooftops behind it. — Week 2 — Meet Mary. The blossom tree that stands at the centre of the compound, and in this world at the centre of the courtyard.

Looking up through the branches of the tree at pale leaves against the sky. — Week 3 — The Vine.

A single tree lit from above in an otherwise dark field, its blossom glowing white. — Week 4 — The Calling. A shaft of light finds the tree in the dark.

The blossom tree in daylight behind a wooden fence, with large white and blue flowers in the foreground. — Week 5 — Three Days. The same tree carried through a day-and-night cycle.

A treeline under an orange evening sky, with the road running away into the distance. — Week 6 — The Approach.

Behind the scene

This is my most technically ambitious project so far, and the first where I stopped building scenes by hand.

Instead of modelling and animating everything manually, much of the episode is built by Python scripts that drive Blender directly — placing geometry, wiring materials, driving the camera and rendering passes. Once a scene is written as a script it can be rebuilt from scratch in minutes, which means a change to the story does not mean starting the shot again.

That approach is also what makes this website possible: the same pipeline that builds the film is what will compress this environment down small enough to walk through in a browser.

Weekly progress on Episode 01 — the playlist updates as the episode is built