[Editor's Note: Worth watching (below). Fun, ironic, well done.]

Trevor Cawood, the visual effects guy behind Citroen Transformer and Nike Evolution, directed his first short film: Terminus.

In appropriate VFX short film fashion, it opens with a concrete-like creature harassing a “1970s businessman.” As the 8-minute film progresses, the businessman finds that colleagues are also being picked on by inanimate objects from the corporate setting: luggage conveyor belts, bland abstract art sculptures, etc., etc.

Is this a commentary on our growing intimacy with the office, resulting from new technology? Or is it a bleak view on how passive we’ve become? Whatever your take, criticism sure gets more interesting served with a large dose of CG.

Cawood also co-founded Vancouver-based Embassy VFX, the digital effects studio responsible for the Tetra Vaal short film that duped everyone into thinking military occupation droids were being shipped out to South Africa.

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