Short film

The Heretic
2020 · 8 min
A visually striking, atmospheric short that feels like a moody tech demo with a mysterious, slightly unsettling edge.
- Directed by
- Veselin Efremov
- Genres
- Animation, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Starring
- Jake Fairbrother
- Overview
- The Heretic is a short film created by Unity’s Demo team. With ”The Heretic”, the team used every aspect of Unity’s High Definition Rendering Pipeline, created advanced effects with the VFX Graph, and undertook the challenge of creating a realistic digital human.
- How it feels
- Eerie, tense, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, faith, technology, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Veselin Efremov
- Genres
- Animation, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Starring
- Jake Fairbrother

