Mirror
Concept & Story
A short built around a single idea: a hallucination you can look at.
It follows a man sleeping off a drink in a bar. As he steps into the corridor toward the restroom, reality has already begun to bend — the space turns strange, and closes in. At the sink, just as he thinks the cold water has brought him back, he realizes with horror that the "himself" in the mirror is staring straight at him, and begins hammering on the glass to get out. Only when a stranger taps his shoulder does the vision cut out and drop him back into the real world.
Through a warping subjective space and the mirror at its centre, the film sits on the blurred edge between reality and the subconscious.
Roles & Pipeline
Director — handled almost the entire short single-handedly, from visual design through the final mix.
Led the concept, visual development and storyboards.
Sole artist on the protagonist, the bar and the restroom — layout, modeling and the full texture set.
Animated the protagonist in the corridor, and all character performance and motion in the restroom.
Sole sound designer — ambience edit, foley and score, sharpening the film's tension and immersion.