USC Animation and Digital Arts MFA Thesis Film
“A pocket watch sends a wistful Irish migrant into a surrealist expanded moment in his homeland. In this hollow dreamscape he is reunited with his true home or Abhaile (homeword in gaelic), but only gets a moment.”
Based in 1930s New York City and Ireland
Role: Director/Designer/Animator
Development
This 3D MFA thesis film takes advantage of new pipelines in Houdini using USD file format and will be rendered in Karma. As part of production this film explores a fully procedural workflow.
Set Modeling, VFX & Rending: Houdini
Animation, Rigging & Grooming: Houdini
Character Modeling: Zbrush
Texturing: Substance Painter
Compositing: Nuke
Score
Music by:
Mario Verlangieri
Recorded on the USC John Williams Scoring Stage
Musicians:
Annah Tencic
Belinda Thom
Hannah Zhang
Seowon Hyun
Simon
Orchestrated & Conducted by:
Chris McElroy
Engineered & Sound Design by:
Daniel Blanck
Sound Design by:
Saranya Nayak
Main Character Design
Modeling
Hugh’s COTTAGE
1930’s NYC Corner
