Breaking Point

                                           Breaking Point

This film is a horror comedy short. Our target audience is 18-25 years old. The story follows Tony Wang, an aspiring artist working late at night to finish a deadline. As the effects of stress and sleep deprivation take over, his drawing of a Tiger in a forest comes to life and starts criticising his work. It escalates into a struggle for control and climaxes as the Tiger comes into his real world.

                                              Concept Art

Our film was a character driven piece, so creating distinct personalities for our main characters was key to our short. We wanted to show that Tiger was an opposing force to Tony, a physical representation of his insecurities. It was essentially a Predator vs Prey relationship.

                                Modelling and Texturing

Once the concept art for the characters was established we proceeded to modelling and texturing whilst keeping the distinct styles in mind as Tiger need to feel and look like it came out of a drawing compared to Tony who lived in the real world.

                                              Environment

Once we created the characters, we created their worlds: Tony's room, the room of a last minute artist, messy, disorganised but with personality, and Tiger's forest, an ominous, unsettling scenery drawn by Tony himself.

                                             Colour Scripts

The use of colours implied the contrasting personalities within this movie, warm, saturated and fiery colours for Tiger and calm monotones for Tony, with the element of green to represent uncomfort, one of our biggest inspirations was 'Suspiria' as we desired an electric, slightly psychedelic horror colour palette.

                                               Lighting

As a continuation of the colour scripts we maintained the colour dynamics in a 3d space with the lighting which helped set a clear mood which could be translated as a classic scenario to the viewers: working late at night with the light of your computer illuminating the room; we balanced this mood along with horror lighting tropes to portray fear through the later scenes.

                                              Animation

The main opposing traits that were shown through our referenced characters was that Tony was scared whilst Tiger was calm and calculated. We made sure to remember that Tony’s actions should be more jumpy, with closed off body language. This would oppose the Tiger, who would have more open body language since he is confidently commanding the room, and to further portray his horror we animated him on 2s to create an unnerving feeling within the audience.