Lyfe was a short project undertaken by Joshua Russell, Alex Stanton, Brent Howard, and I in the winter of 2014. It tells the story of a man looking for love in a near-future dominated by social media applications. The cyberpunk aesthetic is its most defining feature, but we hope it also serves a cautionary tale to how our lives may be judged based on superficial Facebook and Instagram posts.
What I did: I wrote the original screenplay and painted, composited, and animated several matte paintings for multiple scenes. This was our first big indie-short, so we fired on all cylinders, nabbing a venue at Hulu headquarters and doing a full casting call. During post production, I focused entirely on the creation of the film's matte paintings to produce a taller, more futuristic Los Angeles.
Watch the film here.