Occupied - Animated Horror Short Film

A park warden is closing facilities for the night, only to find that one of the bathrooms is still in use...

This is a short film done by my friend Jasmine Kaur and myself for our final semester in college. We've been studying 2D animation but wanted to start working with 3D, so our priority was to learn Blender because it's free and very cool and pretty. This is what we made :)

Animated in Blender
Composited in Adobe After Effects
Sound edited in Adobe Audition
Additional art made in Procreate

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Finally, someone with brains in a horror film!

[ЕленаКим-цт]

I like that in the bathroom he was either standing in the way of a (potentially closing) door or holding the handle. You have to control when it slams shut and on whom!

[zubrifikusummuk]

his moustache looks like an open mouth and i cant unsee it

[erimator]

3:31 This is the exact reason why this guy will live to see another day.

[allecsgaut]

Smart man didn't investigate further and just left

[LuizFelipe-spdg]

This is the only character from a horror story with a brain.
He saw the strange thing in there and ran away without looking behind.

[TheHalflingLad]

Hat's off to you for pulling off a compelling, yet perfectly tasteful horror concept. No excesses, no graphic content, just effective suspense and good timing. Very nice!

[colea]

In horror movies people tend to very stupid.

This man wasn’t one of those people.

That’s why he’s still living.

[KayF]

Yooo when that bubble popped and the janitor closed the door so quick and drove off I laughed so hard💀

3:23

[ArmaniIntoParanormal]

The way how he ran outta the bathroom lol 👍😂

[IsaacCartoons]

This is so awesome! The atmosphere is amazing and super expressive animation! Great Job!

[halokid]

Legend has it that after this, he quit his job to be a security guard at a train station and chasing a kid who keeps vandalizing trains.

[yungkimchee]

this is so extremely well done especially for a two man team in BLENDER of all things! super inspiring!!

[PlebianGorilla]

I imagined his mustache as his mouth, weird, no teeth, agape. And now I can’t unsee it.

[KB-ohip]

Did anyone else think the mustache was his mouth at first?

[jazminratzlaff]

This is stupendous, love the art look of the animation. I laughed so hard when that dark murky looking bubble burst and he flew right out the door to the vehicle. He was not doing maintenance anymore after hearing and seeing that. 😂

[richardd]

To his credit, upon entering he DID look up! So rarely see that in horror (until it's too late).

[nelliesilvers]

Almost as creepy as our long drop loos in Australia as you're travelling North. In the middle of nowhere, pure isolation, a tiny tin shack stands alone in darkness. You go inside and it's like stepping into a void. The worst part is yet to come. You sit on a seemingly bottomless "toilet" where snakes have been known to dwell. You sit there (they're tall and I'm short so no choice BUT to sit after layering edges with toilet paper) and just expect SOMEthing to slither or crawl up at ya. You look around and see redback spiders and, even worse, massive flying cockroaches. All you can do is get your business done ASAP and exit the stink trap that's non flushable.
Hubby's a heavy haulage truckie and does some long haul road train work as well so I love going on runs with him...except when it comes time to answer Nature's call. I love snakes, spiders etc but not while sitting on an contraption that houses them, knowing they could crawl/slither up and/or into your nether regions before you even get to react.

[gelatine_ac]

"So, you make animations, huh?"
Fantastic work, Liam. You're the coolest guy I know.

[nimblebrock]

To be honest, it's been a while since i've seen a good animated horror short.