A short piece using one cardboard box and a dozen rituals to interrogate the metaphor of cultural containers.
A 90-second 3D piece exploring how cultures are packaged, traded and lost. One box. Many languages.
Process
How it got made.
Selected stills from the working files — block-outs, style frames and tests that informed the final piece.
The brief was self-set: explore what happens when you treat "culture" as something you can put inside a cardboard box and ship somewhere else. The piece works through a single recurring shot — a box, mid-rotation — that opens into different interiors.
I built the rig so the box geometry and camera move are locked, but every interior is a separate scene file. This let me iterate on each ritual independently while keeping the cuts on the same beats.
Lighting was the hard part. Each interior had to read as "somewhere specific" inside three frames, against a neutral exterior. I landed on a fixed three-point setup outside the box and let the interiors handle their own atmospheric haze.