Exploring Mental Health Through 3D Storytelling

My final major project for my BA (Hons) at Kingston School of Art. I wanted to make a short film about stress, feeling detached from yourself, and finding your way back, drawn from my own experience.

I built the film in Blender. A figure made of metal and glass walks through rooms that stand for stress, dissociation and calm. Particles close in on it like stress does, and it changes as it learns to let them pass.

Francis Bacon's figures and James Turrell's light rooms shaped the look. Volumetric light and a colour for each feeling carry the story without words, and much of the movement is procedural.