Pump
Motion Design / 3D
A short film about the uneasy overlap between machinery and organic matter, and the kind of intimacy that happens when the two get too close.
Overview
The register had to be exact: mechanical and precise, but genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Finding the line between clinical and organic took the whole production.
Process
Houdini simulation gave the mechanical sequences their weight and a degree of unpredictability. The organic elements were rendered with subsurface scattering so they read as vulnerable next to everything hard around them.
Outcome
Self-directed, and the piece that marked out a visual territory I have kept coming back to.
