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Extracorporeal Cognitive Preservation – Eightsix Science – Nino Accardi

Eightsix Science

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Nino Accardi

Director, Producer, 3D Artist

Artist / Brand

Eightsix Science

Year

2026

Category

Explainer film

Awards

SAE Alumni Award 2025
Best of Swiss Web 2026, Bronze (Technology)
Best of Swiss Web 2026, Shortlist (Creativity)

Credits

Nino Accardi: Director, Producer, 3D Artist
Client: Eightsix Science
Scientific lead & writer: Daniel Burger
Sound design & music: Gabriel Brönnimann
Production company: Next Hype GmbH

Links

Case study SAE Alumni Awards 2025: winners Best of Swiss Web 2026: Hall of Fame

A three-minute 3D explainer for a six-phase neuroengineering procedure, made for researchers, clinicians and future investors. Complex science turned into one clear visual story.

Produced over a year, from February 2025 to February 2026, by a three-person team: Daniel Burger (scientific lead and writer), Nino Accardi (direction and 3D animation) and Gabriel Brönnimann (sound and music). Built in Cinema 4D with Octane, refined across 13 script iterations and checked frame by frame against more than 25 published references, supported by more than 70 specialised AI agents for script analysis, fact-checking and overlay design.

Behind the scenes

The 3D viewport next to the final render, and the blocking of all nine scenes.

Viewport vs. final render

Blocking

Phase 1 · Brain scanning

Phase 2 · Digital reconstruction

Phase 3 · Scaffold generation and bioprinting

Phase 4 · Graft-by-graft integration

Phase 4 · Repeated across the whole brain

Phase 5 · Extraction into perfusion

Phase 6 · Sensory input

Phase 6 · Virtual worlds

Research: conceptual schematics

The animation is based on Eightsix Science's schematics of the procedure: gradual biohybrid brain replacement, extraction into machine perfusion, and life in a virtual world via a brain-computer interface.

Figure 1 · The three-step ECP procedure. Figure: Eightsix Science, from the ECP case study by Nino Accardi — Figure 1 · The three-step ECP procedure

Figure 2 · Generative tissue engineering pipeline. Figure: Eightsix Science, from the ECP case study by Nino Accardi — Figure 2 · Generative tissue engineering pipeline

Research programme

Figures from Eightsix Science's ongoing research. The film draws on six research domains: cortical reorganisation, neural tissue fabrication, biohybrid brain-computer interfaces, functional integration support, sensory input and virtual worlds, and machine perfusion.