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  • Motion Collage | VFX Narrative Piece – Seneca Polytechnic, 2024

  • Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Audition

  • To those who lost loved ones in war

  • IRON SKY is an experimental collage-style motion project that merges historical grief, visual protest, and poetic resistance into a powerful audiovisual experience. Designed and executed as a final project for a VFX course in the third semester at Seneca Polytechnic, the piece speaks directly to the emotional toll of war and oppression, drawing inspiration from early cinema, war propaganda, and 20th-century visual journalism.

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    The piece is fully animated using a combination of digital illustration, puppet tool movement, texture overlays, and archival-style typography. From collapsing cities to crumbling bodies and reborn symbols of peace, every scene acts as a layer in the collective memory of wartime suffering and resistance.

    • Charlie Chaplin’s speech from The Great Dictator (the moment where he pleads for unity, not division),

    • The hauntingly soulful tone of Dorothy Maynor’s vocals, and

    • An instrumental from Paolo Nutini’s "Iron Sky", building the spine of the piece.

    All elements were edited, layered, and balanced using Adobe Audition, creating a raw, dramatic, and immersive auditory experience that punctuates each animated moment.

  • “We think too much and feel too little.”
    The main message is a plea for humanity, delivered visually through chaos, collapse, and ultimately—hope. It’s a call to remember the past and resist injustice, oppression, and dehumanization in all forms.

  • This film is not entertainment—it’s an expression. It’s a protest. It’s remembrance. It’s storytelling in fragments. IRON SKY invites viewers to sit with discomfort, to acknowledge loss, and to visualize the fragile balance between destruction and unity.

    • To express anti-war sentiment using a layered visual-narrative structure

    • To explore motion design beyond commercial intent—anchored in human experience

    • To apply advanced After Effects techniques (puppet tool, grunge animation, texture masking, vintage effects, 2.5D camera motion)

    • To build an immersive, nonlinear story using sound, movement, and type as emotional cues

    • Required emotionally sensitive handling of historical themes

    • No preexisting high-res assets: all figures, transitions, and textures were handmade or composed from scratch

    • Syncing layered speech with motion and typography demanded frame-by-frame planning

    • Tight production timeline within academic calendar

    • Developed a uniquely personal visual identity—merging fine art, protest poster styles, and motion

    • Created an entirely original soundtrack edit through complex multi-track layering

    • Delivered a deeply moving experience that stands apart from commercial or academic constraints

    • Built all visuals from scratch, down to each textured hand, using only Illustrator + After Effects

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