Down on the Render Farm

This is a short film I created for my School of Motion course, Lights, Camera, Render! which literally started as a joke between my fellow educator, EJ Hassenfratz and myself. It began with a simple "hey, what if we depict a render farm as if it's an actual farm?" and I ran with the concept from there, populating the world with robo-characters, GPU corn, strange crop dusters, monitors and servers, and of course, aliens to abduct the cattle. The fun and whimsical music and sound design is by Wes Slover of Sono Sanctus.