HAJ

ART

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HAJ is an artist and filmmaker.

Trained as a 3D generalist, animator, and machinist, he won the Stan Winston Robot Design Contest with RoboBeast, a lion robot. His work has since been made with Levi's, Zoox, Marvel, and TBWA\Chiat\Day.

Storyteller first. The characters come before everything else.

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Woven · 2026 · animated short · 8:31

Under a total eclipse, a dying clay weaver finishes his final rug, and the creatures woven into it wake to dance his life out of him.

A clay weaver seated at a vertical loom in a grey cave, a frame drum leaning beside him — The loom

A single green leaf caught in the warp threads, the only colour in a grey world — The leaf

The weaver's face, carved clay, cracked and drying — The weaver

The woven lion roaring, its coat a Persian carpet — The lion

The woven lion and bull facing each other on the rug — The hunt

In festival submission — the film is not yet public

How it was made

The bull drawn in pencil in a sketchbook, armoured and horned — Drawn

A watercolour study of the weaver at his loom, a tree through the window — Painted

The weaver's head sculpted in 3D — Sculpted

The bull's model and its unwrapped texture layout — Built

The lion rendered with groomed fur — Rendered

Every frame began in 3D, sculpted, animated, and lit by hand. Some shots are entirely that. Others were finished with generative tools, because a film this size has no other way to exist in one lifetime and one pair of hands.

Sculpture, relief, and print. Objects made by hand and by machine: carved and cast, milled and printed, the same creatures brought out of the screen and into something you can hold.

In production