Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing is Sony Pictures’ 2022 mystery drama based on Delia Owens’s 2018 novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones. Directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay by Lucy Alibar, and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter, the film follows Kya, an abandoned yet defiant girl who raises herself to adulthood in a North Carolina marshland and becomes a naturalist — until the town’s hotshot is found dead and she stands trial as the prime suspect. Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr., Jojo Regina, Garret Dillahunt, Ahna O’Reilly, and David Strathairn co-star.

SCANable provided 3D scanning for the production, capturing photogrammetry data in support of the film’s visual effects and CG background work.