The project combines cinematic staging, symbolic environmental design, and character-driven animation to create a darkly humorous but visually grounded narrative experience. Through stylized office spaces, exaggerated authority figures, and surreal transitions between reality and imagination, the animation uses visual metaphor and pacing to communicate emotional exhaustion and workplace anxiety in a more cinematic and story-focused format.
From a technical perspective, the production explored character modelling, rigging, blendshape workflows, environmental texturing, lighting design, scene organization, and post-production editing pipelines in Autodesk Maya and Adobe Premiere Pro. Particular attention was placed on maintaining stylized character performance, visual continuity, and controlled cinematic composition while balancing rendering limitations, animation polish, and large-scale scene management across the production pipeline.
Presented through the cinematic storytelling, technical animation, and animation teaching practice of Roman Jahandideh.
Technical Animation Artist, Director, and Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University.
DEADEnd Job is a stylized narrative animation project developed within IAT 343 Animation at Simon Fraser University. Blending surreal visual storytelling with exaggerated workplace scenarios, the film explores themes of burnout, pressure, and personal age