Stamino
CGI for Short Film by Marie-Anna Šulc
For Marie-Anna Šulc’s experimental film Stamino, I was invited to create a series of CGI sequences that would embody the film’s exploration of imperfect bodies, nourishment, vulnerability, and obsession with bodily perfection. The challenge was to render visuals that didn’t merely accompany the live footage but deepened its visceral and emotional charge.
Together with the director, we conceived surreal environments of muscle, intestines, and sinews interlaced with steel, prosthetics, and gym equipment. These CGI passages became nightmarish landscapes of shame, awe, and transformation, drawing the viewer into a bodily underworld. To achieve this, I combined conventional 3D workflows with generative AI techniques to produce gory, tactile PBR textures, while advanced compositing in Fusion allowed for atmospheric lens effects and post-processed depth of field, keeping rendering times manageable without compromising immersion and stylistic control.
The final CGI sequences extend Stamino’s meditation on vulnerability, obsession, and recovery by visualizing the body as a site of both horror and intimacy. The CGI mirrors the film’s oscillation between closeness and distance, violence and tenderness—inviting the viewer to wander through spaces that feel at once alien and uncannily human.
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