City Lights Senior thesis
My thesis film created during my final year of education at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
When the light bulb at the top of a skyscraper antenna goes out one evening, a young maintenance man named Roy must make the perilous journey up to the tower's top in order to replace the bulb.
Credits
Directed by Cat McDonnell
Also Responsible for: Development of story, layout, visual development, look development, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing, additional modeling.
Music by Hylton Mowday
Sound Design by Kasia Nowak
Voice of Roy by Martin Filipowski
Telephone Voice by Gavin Slyman
Additional Visual Development by Madeleine White and James Bolan
Character Model by Sebastian Gat
Environment and Prop Modeling by Jessica Nalbach, Michael Rootare, Kasia Nowak, Sebastian Gat, and Esther Song
Texturing by Arielle Trenk, Janice Lee, and Polina McGuire
2D FX by Suejee Lee
Color Correction by Meghan Pangiochi
Additional Animation by Daniela Dwek, Briannah Ecklund, Esther Gan, Jenna Howard, and Maya Mendonça
Additional Lighting by Kasia Nowak
Thesis Advisors: Anca Risca, Shayne Ryan, and Eric Cunha
Produced at the School of Visual Arts, Class 2017