FLITE | Hyper Realistic CG Sci-Fi Short Using Unreal Engine

Using state-of-the-art virtual production techniques comes one of the most technically impressive sci-fi shorts of recent memory. From Oscar-winner Tim Webber of Framestore and starring Alba Baptista comes FLITE. In London 2053, a world champion hoverboarder finds herself imprisoned in a luxury skyscraper apartment by her controlling manager. With the help of a well-meaning stranger she engineers an ingenious high-rise escape but soon finds herself riding for her life. A selection of Short of the Week, the web’s leading curators of quality short films. ✨ JOIN US ON SHORTVERSE: 🎬 SUBMIT A FILM: FLITE Dir. Tim Webber “FLITE is a film I’ve been eagerly awaiting for much of 2023. Rare is it that a short film trailer drop feels like an event, but, back in May, FLITE got that treatment from the Hollywood Reporter, and in-depth writeups in specialized industry publications soon followed. This is not the norm, but not every short film can claim an Oscar-winning VFX Supervisor as its director, someone whose fingerprints are all over several of the most beloved and acclaimed films of the 21st century. Tim Webber is that director, and also the Chief Technology Officer of the VFX powerhouse Framestore. The former Oxford Physics student has pioneered some of the approaches we now bundle under the umbrella of “virtual production” in his career, perhaps most notably on the 2013 Alfonso Cuarón film Gravity, and now applies that expertise to his own turn in the director’s chair“ - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi FULL REVIEW: *CAST:* Alba Baptista Gethin Anthony Daniel Lawrence Taylor *CREW* Tim Webber - Writer/Director Simon Whalley, Diarmid Scrimshaw - Producer Theo Jones - VFX Supervisor Nestor Prado - Realtime Supervisor Francisco Pacheco Beltran -Visualisation Supervisor James King - Animation Supervisor Wouter Gilsing - Compositing Supervisor Daphen Tychogiorgou - Editor Harry Escott - Original Music Ben Goodall - Sound Designer Colourist - Jean-Clément Soret Animation & VFX by Framestore Colour & Finish by Company 3 Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.