Creep Box
Creep Box is a psychological thriller about isolation, paranoia and control. We worked with director Patrick Biesemans across the short and the feature, first on the screens the characters use, then on the devices themselves.
The interface work had to carry story. Every readout, warning and “purged” flag was written into the scene, so the graphics progress the plot while keeping the film’s unsettling tone. Alongside the UI we concepted the film’s central device, its base and controller, and a family of handheld simulation drives: near-future objects designed in Fusion 360 and Cinema 4D, then 3D printed and finished by the art department. Timelines were tight, so everything was built to change on the day.
Creep Box began as a short for ALTER and grew into a feature. The film is about a device that lets the living speak to the dead, so the object had to feel plausible, used and slightly wrong. The title sequence, the device's slatted light and the dark, instrument-panel palette set the tone before anyone speaks.
The device talks in tags. Each simulation drive carries a name, and the readouts cycle through ACTIVE, TRANSFER and PURGED as the story turns. These were written into the script, so the graphics advance the plot rather than decorate it: a flicker on a panel is a line of dialogue.
Caul's lab is a wall of screens: code scrolling on CRTs, a brain-scan interface for the HDTA corporation, CT slices, grids of cells lighting up as a transfer runs. Each screen was built as a loop that could run for a whole take, with warning and destabilisation states cut in on cue.
The props were ours too. The device, its charging base and the controller were designed in Fusion 360 and Cinema 4D, printed and finished by the art department. The simulation drives, a family of handheld sticks with a name on the end, went through a dozen passes before the slats, the colours and the tag window settled.
Behind the finished objects sit the working documents: blueprints for the charging port, controller and simulation drive, segmentation and servicing diagrams for the art department, and the Behance pages that walk through the short, the feature, Caul's lair, the board room and the med lab.
Screen graphics, interface design and prop design for the psychological thriller Creep Box, from the ALTER short to the 2025 feature: the device, its base and controller, the simulation drives, and every screen the characters touch.
Screen graphics, interface design and prop design for the psychological thriller Creep Box, from the ALTER short to the 2025 feature: the device, its base and controller, the simulation drives, and every screen the characters touch.
Screen graphics, interface design and prop design for the psychological thriller Creep Box, from the ALTER short to the 2025 feature: the device, its base and controller, the simulation drives, and every screen the characters touch.
Screen graphics, interface design and prop design for the psychological thriller Creep Box, from the ALTER short to the 2025 feature: the device, its base and controller, the simulation drives, and every screen the characters touch.
Screen graphics, interface design and prop design for the psychological thriller Creep Box, from the ALTER short to the 2025 feature: the device, its base and controller, the simulation drives, and every screen the characters touch.
