Hunt is a graphic short story created using traditional media. The story revolves around a mysterious cloaked figure and a father-son duo, each individually hunting a mythical bird in a barren, winter wasteland. Both parties track their prey by following the trail of feathers it drops throughout the leafless forest. Ultimately, both the cloaked figure, revealed to be a young woman, and the father and son, arrive at the bird’s abode, a magically flowering tree, at the same time. Realizing that the bird is raising three hatchlings, the female hunter makes the decision to protect the bird from the father and son by threatening to shoot the boy. After the father and son balk, the bird descends and helps the woman, allowing her to climb on its back and pick one of the fruits from the flowering tree. The female hunter then returns home with the food to her physically disabled husband and small children.
Hunt explores the relationship between parent and child; specifically the sacrifices that parents feel obligated to make to provide for their offspring. Both the story’s female hunter and the father character are hunting for food to provide for their children, but the female hunter realizes that their target, the mythical bird, has children of its own and cannot bring herself to kill it. Instead she chooses to ward away her rival and protect the bird. A key thematic element is the preservation of higher ideals (preserving families) over more basic needs and desires (the need to for food).
A sample of the sketches, assets and concepts completed over the course of my first semester at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center.
This project consists of landscape photographs of Easton, Pennsylvania. The goal of the project was to create abstracted, aesthetically appealing images from the town's gritty architecture.
