Hum is a student’s sci fi short by Tom Teller, about a dishwashing robot, created at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film. Via Short of the Week:
While narratively the film is limited, emotionally it is adroit, and visually it is spectacular. A student work completed in only a single semester, the film blends limited live-action photography with its animation and VFX, endeavoring to a photo-realism that yet preserves a degree of fantasy. Shallow depth of field and intense lighting provide pizazz to a film that is very appealing in its art-direction.
The writer/director of the film is Tom Teller, who was a Junior during the production. Created at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film, the film naturally brings to mind another 3D robot film that came out of the same school, Jack Anderson’s Wirecutters, which was a finalist for the Student Academy Award and has received over 2M views online to date. Teller will see if he can’t match those accomplishments with his Senior film, Icarus, which is currently on the festival circuit, but in the meantime the precocious talent has created a production company called Frame 48 with fellow students from Dodge, and is in the midst of earning his Masters in Business Administration. Very smart to think about the business of this creativity game Mr. Teller! Good luck.