Client
Personal Project
Period
Dec 2022
Tools
Cinema 4D
Octane
After Effects
Marvelous Designer
Services
Motion Design
3D Modeling
Cloth Simulation
Lighting
01 — Vantage Point
Outside,
looking in.
The camera stays outside the window for the entire film. There is no cut in, no interior shot. The frame is fixed against the glass.
The Decision · 01
02 — Concealment
Lace curtains,
half-drawn.
Lace curtains cover most of the window. The room is visible only in fragments — a corner of a table, the edge of a tree, the flicker of a candle.
The Decision · 02
03 — Absence
No one
in the room.
A set table, two wine glasses, a tree decorated with care. But no one is in the room. The scene is prepared and left alone.
The Decision · 03
02
Chapter — Craft
Snow making process
Translucency, displacement, and edge breakup tuned across the falling flakes and the piles on the sill.
Curtain simulation and window render
opacity, fold, and interior lighting developed together rather than in separate passes.
Audio Bottega · Lucca, Italy · January 2023
"Yes, we can start with that video — the format .mp4 1920×1080 is perfect. As soon as you have new animation, feel free to send it to us."
— James Micheli, co-founder, Audio Bottega
Takeaways.
Most of the decisions on this project were about what not to include. No interior shots, no people, no full view of the room, no camera movement. The film works because it stays still and stays outside.
The technical choices — volume snow, Marvelous Designer curtains — were made to support that restraint, not to show them off. The tools matter only because they made the simpler idea possible.
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