The long night
The Long Night is a 3D looping animated short film.
I used MAYA to create the basic city model, and Zbrush to sculpt the robot. Following that, I animated the scene in C4D, set up the lighting, and then rendered it with Arnold to complete.
Inspiration
The animation is inspired by Jordan Wolfson's work, Female Figure.
When visitors enter the exhibition hall of female figure, they will see the back of a beautiful woman dancing, only to discover on approach that it is in fact a scary robot staring at the viewer from the mirror.
This work uses Sigmund Freud’s concept of “uncanny". It refers to the conflict between a sense of familiarity and a sense of fear.
In my work, I try to merge mechanical elements with human faces to create an "uncanny" feeling.
