The Overnewton Anglican Community College student was one of 55 student artists selected to exhibit their work. His short animation film, Constructing Compression - which provides a negative outlook on the future of Melbourne because of congestion, pollution and reliance on digital technology - will be shown at the Ian Potter Centre from April 1 to June 20. The VCE student said he wanted to warn the public about population increase and overcrowding.

"Everyone seems to be focused on building bigger, greater things, pushing the technology to its limits," Tim said. "Noone is thinking about what it does to the environment that we live in, and being one of the millions of people in a city scares me a little bit."

The two-minute film was created by drawn images, inspired by futuristic movies and music that Tim has listened to.

"It moves from the suburban environment to an urban sprawl, then to flying cars and at the end of it you can't even recognise it as a city ... it's more like a computer chip."