Ooze by Kilian Vilim

In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the "up and down" of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

Ooze by Killian Vilim was his thesis at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts  (HSLU),-Design & Kunst/ Animation

The black-and-white framework is already an omen for dark things to appear. 2D animation is well-conceived in its main character design (round face, protruding nose); however, at the same time, it goes to extremes when it has to face all the other characters interacting with it. The message is clear: the elevator boy won't simply fit in.

With a perfectly competent and engrossing manipulation of its space (here's wipe transitions for you), Ooze manifestly depicts a life that is supposed to elevate -but simply turns the world into fragmented pieces. The word Ooze may denote a liquid, but here's a more solid (and inescapable) environment for the character -unless he decides to do one last step.

The soundtrack (Raffael Pochanke) makes this effort more comedic and relieves a bit of the last-act Angst. While not everybody would want or be advised to follow in the main character's footsteps, they may still want to empathize with his plights. And Ooze does this unmistakably.