3D Animated Film · 52 sec · 2026

The title Brittle describes a state that may appear solid and stable while remaining vulnerable to change or fracture. Brittle is a 3D animated film that approaches anxiety not as a lack, but as a state of excess produced by too much information and too many possibilities existing at once.

The film moves between an urban landscape, a particle-based planet, growing crystals and mineral forms, without giving anxiety a single fixed image. Particles and materials repeatedly gather, disperse, grow and shift in form, revealing instability through different scales and material states.

 

I. Landscape

The urban landscape presents the most familiar and reality-based environment in the film. Fog and dense architectural forms contrast with the abstract particles and mineral imagery that follow, connecting anxiety to the everyday world.

II. Excess

Countless particles repeatedly gather into the form of a planet before dispersing again. Through this unstable movement, anxiety is approached not as a lack, but as a state of excess in which too much information and possibility exist at once.

III. Threshold

A single drop acts as a small catalyst, disturbing a still surface and triggering the growth of crystals. It marks a threshold where a small change begins to spread and develop into a larger transformation.

IV. Collision

Growing mineral structures move toward a fluid sphere and collide. As different materials and movements converge at a single point, accumulated tension is transformed into a physical event.

Role
Concept & Direction, 3D, Animation, Compositing, Editing & Color, Sound Design — Kisoo Jung


Tools
Cinema 4D, Octane, X-Particles, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Ableton Live