Nefarious

Nefarious is a third-year 3D Animated short film by Joshua Luigi Bowen, Lucy Cole, Lucia Malicdan, and Hannah Parslow. 

Set in a museum containing magical artefacts that once belonged to gods - Nefarious follows a girl in her pursuit of a powerful staff that will allow her to unleash unrivalled power across the world. The artefact is coveted and powerful so it won't be an easy task.

Breakdown of "The Leap of Faith"
Breakdown of "The Spell"

Lighting & Compositing by Lucia Malicdan

Alfea

Concept artwork of the character "Alfea"

Concept Art By Lucy Cole

Artefacts

Concepts of Museum Artefacts that belonged to the Gods. (Staff, Ghoster, Hourglass, Sword and Teacups)

Concept Art By Lucy Cole

Staff model breakdown and Ghoster, Space Sword and Staff of Destruction turnarounds.

Models by Hannah Parslow

The Museum of Magical Miscellany

Concepts for the world of Nefarious & Museum

Concept Art By Lucy Cole

The Museum of Magical Miscellany 

Environment Modelling, Texturing & Look Development by Hannah Parslow

Initial Animatic of "Nefarious"

Redrawn Boards by Hannah Parslow
Edited by Joshua Bowen

Blockout of the film before completion.

Edited by Joshua Bowen

Foley soundscape

Sound Edited by Joshua Bowen (We did not create the individual sounds)

Core Team:

Joshua Bowen: Director of Story, Animation, Editing, Writer & Foley.
Lucy Cole: Art Director, Animation, Concept Art & Rigging.
Lucia Malicdan: Technical Director, Lighting, Rendering & Compositing
Hannah Parslow: Art Director, Hard Surface Modelling, Texturing & Look Development

Freelancers:

Andrew Zimmerman: Destruction FX
Bhavesh Raghupatruni: Lighting & Compositing
Catherine Langmaid: Colour Script
Emma Lau: Teacups Model & Texture
Gabriel Monteiro: Character Texturing
Gererd Murphy: Animation
Isobel Hine: Base Character Concepts
Jamie O'Donnell: Magic FX
Joe Dowling: Groom FX
Lara Wallington: Hourglass & Lightning Bolt Model & Texture
Luke Brown: Musical Score
Miguel Monteiro: Character Model
Zoe Kench: Animation