A Lone Astronaut
Personal work · short animation
One explorer left on a planet where the rivers glow — no client, made alone from beginning to end.
Client work always starts from the purpose of an exhibition and the conditions of a room. The question behind this piece is what gets made when those conditions are absent. With nothing to explain and no wall dimension to fit, what was left was a single impression: a glowing river, and one person standing beside it.
The colour is deliberately unlike everything else on this site. Where the accent on client work is a warm terracotta, this piece alone uses a cold cyan. Personal work should read at a different temperature inside a portfolio, and the glowing river asked for that colour anyway.
Production is ongoing. What is shown here are clips and stills from look development — direction, not a finished film. The current render still carries a watermark and needs replacing.
“It started as a way to find out what is left when the conditions are taken away.”
How it was made
- 1
Reference & Consultation
Started from the single image of a glowing river and set the environmental rules of the planet first — atmosphere, gravity, light source.
- 2
Look Development
Built the look around a single cyan light source, so the explorer's silhouette always reads as backlit.
- 3
Setting the Rules
Locked the shape of the suit and the emission pattern of the river as references, so the world holds across shots.
- 4
Generation & Compositing
Generated three viewpoints — wide, vertical, close-up — separately and matched them as if shot in one location.
- 5
Grade & Master
Unified cyan saturation so it does not drift between shots; a watermark-free final render is still to be substituted in.
Credits
If you are planning something at this scale
Available for exhibition and museum film, media façades, and immersive projection.
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