After sitting on this film for nearly two years, I am incredibly proud to finally share my 2024 HKU graduation film, NOXIOUS.
Creating this short was an intense journey of exploring the boundaries between technical artistry, custom workflows, and cinematic storytelling within Blender. For a long time, the pressure of releasing it held me back, but looking back at what I accomplished, together with help from other artists, in such a short production window, this film deserves to be seen.
A massive thank you to Mikael Umarov for the incredible music and sound design, and to everyone who helped bring this vision to life.
If you are interested in the technical workflows, rendering setups, or asset creation behind the film, let me know in the comments. If there's enough interest, I’d love to break down the production pipelines and Blender techniques in the future.
Thank you for watching.
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CREDITS:
Created and Directed by: Kay Hilman
Music and Sound Design: Mikael Umarov
Simulations and Animation:
Kay Hilman, Tobias Drijvers, Sas van Gulik
Additional Modeling:
Bart Broekman, Lucas de Kuyper
Additional Illustration:
Leonie Kantratowicz
Ecologist:
Mads Van Peenen
Teachers:
Cyrille Bloemers, Ronald Nijhof, Bobby de Groot, Roloff de Jue
Special Thanks:
Ruben Weissenbach, Luc Wervenbos, Boris Bouwmeester, Tom van Zutphen,
Zerimo Gerritsen, Naarek Avagian, Natasja Ploeg, My Parents
HKU 2024
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