Norman Loafsby (2020) Short Film

Imagine if your fears, anxieties and compulsions manifested themselves as living creatures in the real world, creatures which stalked your every movement. Welcome to the life of Norman Loafsby - a thirty year old, flamingo obsessed artist, whose life is a constant battle with these creatures. We follow him over a few days as he struggles to overcome these manifestations in attempts to hold down his job at the shoe factory. Through a turn of events Norman discovers something dark within his past which is the root cause to everything he's been experiencing.

Norman Loafsby was created by myself and 4 other Masters students for our final project. I was the FX artist for the film and used Houdini for all of the effects used. I was also in charge of creating the fur groom for the main antagonist character of the chimp which was also created using Houdini groom tools.
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The film was directed by Daniel Petersen who also modeled, textured and animated the chimp character shown.

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Producer, Compositing and Lighting done by Caitlin Pope