Genre: coming-of-age, comedy
Length: 18 min
Audience: 15+ young adults
A SHORT FILM BY BERTIL VORRE
Finn’s job at the local grill takes a turn when Elsie enters his life, but their virtual reality romance quickly spirals into chaos. The Otter, a short film written and directed by Bertil Vorre, is currently in post production.
SYNOPSIS
Finn’s mundane fast-food job takes a turn when Elsie joins the team. Hoping to impress her, he invites her to play Dolphin Jockey 2000, a VR game where players balance on flying dolphins. But as Finn struggles to express his feelings, he falls for toxic online advice, pretending to be someone he’s not, leading to a chaotic misunderstanding that hurts Elsie. The Otter explores modern relationships in the tech age, blending absurd comedy with animation
BEHIND THE SCENES
Making The Otter was all about blending new technology and conventional filmmaking. We 3D scanned the actors to create lifelike digital versions of them, capturing their movements and expressions with motion capture. These digital characters were brought into a virtual world built in Unreal Engine, where we explored the complexities of relationships in both digital and real spaces.
