Pump
Motion Design / 3D — 2024
Client
Personal Work
Year
2024
Services
- — 3D Motion
- — Cinematography
- — Compositing
Role
Motion Designer
A personal short film exploring the uneasy territory where machinery and organic matter intertwine — visualising tension, discomfort, and a kind of mechanical intimacy.
The film needed to hold a specific register — mechanical and precise, yet viscerally uncomfortable. Finding that line between clinical and organic was the central challenge throughout production.
Tension as image
Houdini simulations gave the mechanical sequences their weight and unpredictability. Organic elements were rendered with subsurface scattering to emphasise their vulnerability against the hardness of surrounding machinery.
A self-directed short film that carves out a distinct visual territory — uncomfortable but compelling, and technically rigorous in its execution of simulation and rendering.
— Metal meets flesh.
