Thalassa | 2026

An underwater explorer stumbles on an ancient artifact and soon meets its guardian.

This project was created for a 3D animation studio class taught by Emily Bujnoch at Texas A&M. I was solely responsible for lighting and siren concept art and lead look development artist. I assisted with story and project management and compositing as well. I modeled and surfaced the diver head, and was the lead surfacer for the Siren.

Credits: Carmen Dollins – Lead Animation, Rigging Emma Hajdik – Lead Modeling, Rigging Gayatri Pemmaraju – Lead Lighting, Surfacing Grace Lee – Lead Surfacing, Modeling Sarah Roberts – Lead Concept Art, Modeling Sidney Slater – Project Manager, Modeling Special Thanks Professor Emily Bujnoch, Theron Smith, Gene Lee, Nicholas Mireles, Hansen Han, Claire Byrd Asset Credits Dragon Studio, Freesound Community, Pixabay, Fab, and Sketchfab