Client
Personal Project - 100%
Period
Nov - Dec 2023
Tools
Cinema 4D
Octane
Mixamo
After Effects
Services
Motion Design
Character Design
Cloth Simulation
Lighting
Overview
< Future Toys >
Piece · 01
Future Toys
dopamine regression.
Speculative 3D scene imagining the endpoint of dopamine addiction — adults regress into infants. One minute of slow, uncanny cinema visualising psychological infantilisation.
Format · 1-minute looping 3D scene
< BTF Relay >
Piece · 02
BTF Relay
Magritte in 3D.
One sequence in a 13-artist CG relay. Translated Magritte's empty frame into 3D vertical space — 300×1080 px, 5 seconds, 24 fps. Selected for exhibition on Seoul LED billboards including COEX Xpace Column.
Format · 300×1080 · 5s · 24fps
03
Chapter — Solution
Place 01
Future Toys
Dopamine sedates,
regression accelerates.
Place 02
BTF Relay
300×1080 px,
Magritte in 3D.
04
Chapter — Results
Long photograph of the COEX vertical LED column at night, the BTF Relay loop running across the full facade — July 2024.
What this proved.
Vertical layering works. On a 1:3.6 frame, stacking objects top-to-bottom — sky, figures, frames, ground, observer — creates spatial depth that a cropped horizontal composition cannot. This became a reusable method across both pieces.
Micro-motion holds attention. In a 5-second near-still frame on a public LED screen, a breathing figure (Mixamo rigging + custom fitting suit) keeps eyes longer than a frozen 3D pose. The rigging work paid off in dwell time.
BTF Relay was selected from ~60 entries for the 1st Media Art Challenge Festival in Seoul (July 2024) and broadcast on COEX Xpace Column and other citywide LED billboards for one month. Organised by C4D User Group · VERS, hosted by VIDO, sponsored by JoongAng Ilbo, Innocean, COEX.
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