Studio
The Fourth Forge
A 3D design studio in Enugu, Nigeria. We work with clients across Africa, Europe, and beyond — in English and in French.
Origin
Why the fourth.
The name is from a furnace.
Three men are thrown into a fire heated seven times hotter than it was meant to be. A fourth walks with them. When they come out, not a hair is singed. The fire that was meant to destroy becomes the place of proving.
We took that as a way of working. The heat is the brief, the constraint, the night at the desk. The Fourth is the presence we will not work without — the Master Architect who refines rather than consumes.
The studio is small. The standard is not.
Directors
Who sits at the table.
Mr Ikpeama Justice, 3D artist, and Architect Silas Eze. Direction of image and of building. Collaborators join when the work needs more hands.
III · Director · 3D artist
Mr Ikpeama Justice
Director of the studio. Models, light, animation, and the last pass on every picture that leaves the forge.
I · Director · Architect
Architect Silas Eze
Director. Plans, structure, and the building as it will be walked — from plot to facade.
Place
Enugu, and the rest of the world.
We are based in Enugu. International work travels as files, night calls, and stills. The atelier is here. The clients are wherever the brief is.