Dead Of Night

This is the Senior Thesis project I created with my thesis partner, Madison Sheakley, during our Senior year at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. We worked on Dead Of Night for a year and a half including the summer of our Senior year in 2019 and officially finished the project in May 2020. We modeled all the environments, assets, characters, and rigged and animated the characters ourselves. We were very fortunate to have Alex Sumoski compose an original score for our film, otherwise, the sound design was done by us.

Dead Of Night is the most challenging project I've ever had to work on, but it was also the most rewarding and helped me grow immensely as an artist. It went through some big changes to get where it needed to today, and as my thesis advisor says, you've got to know when to break the pots. I'm very thankful to all the people who helped us along the way with this project, but especially to my thesis partner Maddie. I couldn't have done this without her, who kept me sane when our rigs would explode and when we went through big changes to our creation.

I hope you enjoy the film!

Image 01: James concept sketches done by Maria Barba

Image 02: James concept sketches/render done by Madison Sheakley

Images 03 & 04: Environment renderings of the bedroom and dock done by Madison Sheakley

Image 05: Environment Renderings of the house and unused boutique done by Maria Barba

Picture of Genevive & James for the locket done by Maria Barba

Style rendering & theme exploration by Maria Barba