4 Ways to Destroy Aspen High
My senior collaborative project that explores the life of 4 teens that have recently discovered they have superpowers.
Continued Preproduction 10/1/25 - Present
These are renders of the new version of the hallway that is much more accurate to Arnold Hall's 2nd floor. It is not where it needs to be right now but the general blocking is accurate to the reference I have but I realized I need more of pretty much every aspect to continue to develop the model to be as accurate as possible. The Lockers are added in right now in place of the benches that currently exist in Arnold Hall and are using previously made models shown off below.
This is the updated version of the school model that is more accurate to Arnold Hall
Live Action Test Footage 9/26/25
We shot a bunch of live action test footage this past weekend (9-26-2025) to allow us to start working with real footage instead of pure CG as most of the film will be live action integration. Below be some of my acting chops on display The 1st video is a wide shot test for the explosion sequence with the actual explosion taking place. 2nd video is the build up to the explosion. 3rd is a close up shot of the actors eyes right before the explosion. The 4th shot is a close up of the actors hands as it builds up to the explosion
Early Preproduction 9/8/25 to 9/25/25
This is the direction I want to take the roof with a traditional angled approach
So far I have managed to block out the majority of the school, but I do intend to make changes to the windows on the front central column and also have the roof align more with Arnold's sloped roofs. Not quite where I wanted this to be by now but I do still like the direction this is heading
Here are my references for the front entrance of the school. Due to the fact we are likely filming at Arnold hall it only makes sense to build a school that looks similar to Arnold as to not make the replacement more difficult than it needs to be. I aim to use just the central tower part of the facade but beyond that customize the school to be more unique and not quite as identifiable as Arnold Hall.
This is my first previs pass on the hallway. This scene will be used for a couple different parts of the project with there being a fight sequence and also and explosion that takes place here.
This is the first pass of the gym area that the characters are in at the start of the film. These are just rough 1st passes as of now that will have more detail and textures as time goes on.
Idea and Concept 9/7/25
The basics of the concept is a superhero short film following the journey of 4 high-school students that recently have discovered they have superpowers. While they have a general idea of how their powers work, they are still learning how to fully control them. We meet our main characters in after school detention where they have to battle people trying to control them. My role in the film will be to do the environment work for the project. Below is ourfile:///C:/Users/pengu/Downloads/FW_Animatic_v01.mp4 first animatic, the actual film will be closer to 12 minutes instead.