I Am The Poop Within Me (2025)
A depressed loser who shits out his negative emotions must confront a monster made of his own excrement.
A 581 USC thesis film. I wrote / directed / edited / sound designed / production designed the film. Shot entirely on the USC stages.
Concept art:
We shot the film on two of USC’s sound stages. To accomodate the blocking and shots I had set up in my animatronic, I designed the sets in Photoshop, and then passed my sketches onto the production designer.
Working with my production designer and using the school’s resources to facilitate our collective vision was one of, if not the most, rewarding creative experiences of my life.
A depressed loser who shits out his negative emotions must confront a monster made of his own excrement.
A 581 USC thesis film. I wrote / directed / edited / sound designed / production designed the film. Shot entirely on the USC stages.
Concept art:
We shot the film on two of USC’s sound stages. To accomodate the blocking and shots I had set up in my animatronic, I designed the sets in Photoshop, and then passed my sketches onto the production designer.
Working with my production designer and using the school’s resources to facilitate our collective vision was one of, if not the most, rewarding creative experiences of my life.
The Poopinator
The Poopinator costume was fabricated by a really kind and talented husband & wife creature designer team located up in Burbank. Here’s a sketch of the creature I drew and gave to them:
Positive Pal Picture Books
While writing and fine tuning the script, I began drawing the Positive Pal picturebooks that the character of the mother draws for Barton in-universe. Here is some of the art from those books, since you can’t see them too well in the film:
BTS Photos
The incredibly talented crew of I Am The Poop Within Me
The incredibly talented crew of I Am The Poop Within Me