Sunset Motel

World premiere planned for Q2 2026.

Overview

Sunset Motel is an immersive VR short set in the Californian desert along Route 66. In a black-and-white, dialogue-free journey, the viewer enters a motel inhabited by marginal, spectral figures—an unsettling world inspired by the dark imagery of Swiss illustrator Thomas Ott.

Narrative premise

You arrive as a new guest at the Sunset Motel. From room to room, you encounter presences that feel half-real, half-memory, until the experience shifts and you realize you’ve become a passenger of a ghost—carried through the motel’s final loop.

What I did

As Motion Capture Master & Creative Technologist, my work focused on the performance-capture side of the immersive pipeline:

• Supervising motion capture sessions (technical coordination + capture quality)
• Ensuring clean take management and robust data handoff for retargeting / animation
• Developping a robust retargeting pipeline
• Supporting real-time / XR constraints (stability, repeatability, troubleshooting)

Links

• Swiss Films page
• Nadasdy Film page

Credits

Production

Cie Gilles Jobin, Nadasdy Film, Floréal Films

Producers

Gilles Jobin, Nicolas Burlet, Avi Amar, Katayoun Dibamehr

Direction

Gilles Jobin, Thomas Ott

Writing

Gilles Jobin, Thomas Ott

Music

Marky Edelmann, Ramon Orza

Artistic direction, 3D creation

Tristan Siodlak, Thomas Ott

Motion capture master & creative technologist

Adryan Barrilliet