Vidushi Gupta
Cardboard Camelot
A mother discovers a magical medieval world within her child’s cardboard castle.
This live-action short film was created in a virtual production studio, Stray Vista in collaboration with Texas A&M Visualization. It explores the profound connection between a mother and her child, using a cardboard castle as a portal to a lifelike medieval world—a visual expression of a child’s boundless creativity and a mother’s love.
Pre-visualization
Animatic
An early exploration of timing and movement using motion-capture animation made in Unreal Engine.
Unreal Environment
Environment
An early iteration of the virtual castle environment, crafted in Unreal Engine.
Designed using cardboard textures to seamlessly match the real on-set cardboard accessories. The concept was to visually represent the child’s imagination—a magical medieval world brought to life through the cardboard castle in his room, as discovered by his mother.
