“Sometime in the early 50s the Soviet Space Agency launched Project Vlad. Details are sketchy. But it was a top secret mission. Shrouded in secrecy. Few records were kept and the project has since been all but forgotten...” Vlad is a Russian chimpanzee cosmonaut. Sent into orbit as a prelude to manned space flight, his hopes for heroism have long since faded. Vlad is a victim of Cold War politics; a long forgotten anachronism whose fate is to trace an endless and lonely trajectory around the Earth. Project Vlad was created digitally on a Silicon Graphics O2/Infinite Reality Engine using Maya 1.5 and Flame 5.5 software. It was then transferred to 35mm film using a Solitair Film Recorder.