Introducing "Project Juliet", the latest short film from our graduating class of students at Escape Studios. In "Project Juliet", an unfortunate lab tester is forced to undergo a dangerous trial, with horrifying consequences. The short film was created by "Team Psychosis" at Escape Studios and was inspired by The Outlast Trials, a survival game created by Montreal-based games company Red Barrels. The cinematic was a collaboration between our graduating class of students studying the Art of Video Games, The Art of Animation and also Character Creation - working together to create a team project.
In "Project Juliet", an unfortunate lab tester is forced to undergo a trial, with horrifying consequences. The short is is inspired by The Outlast Trials, a 2024 first-person psychological survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels.
Industry feedback was generously provided by Shelley Page from Locksmith Animation, and by Sam Little from Hammer Creative.
Project Juliet
Metahumans
The team used Metahuman characters for their character rigs. Metahumans are advanced, pre-built skeletal systems designed by Epic Games to bring photorealistic digital humans to life.
Modular Design
The team created multiple re-usable assets to ensure maximum efficiency in the games pipeline.
Software
"Project Juliet" was animated in Maya and rendered in Unreal Engine. Editing was done in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Project Juliet - Credits
Project Juliet was created by "Team Psychosis". It was produced by Pahiya Rahman. The Art director was Samuel Baker. Leona Lu and Lewis Sims were
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| Scene from Project Juliet |
lead animators. Blake Owens did the storyboards.
- Samuel Baker - Art Director, Writer
- Pahiya Rahman - Producer, Editor, Tech Artist
- Oliver Coote - Environment Artist
- Lana Glendenning - Environment Artist
- Milly Proudfoot - Environment Artist
- Harry Amatt - Prop Artist
- Edie Thomas - Prop Artist
- Lilli Sempers - Character Artist, Co-writer
- Leona Lu - Co-writer, Lead Animator
- Lewis Sims - Lead Animator
- Alexandra Cornwall - Animator
- Tommy Goodwin - Animator
- Jason Cole - Animator
- Blake Owens - Storyboards, Co-writer
- Sofia Malpeli - Character Artist
Industry Feedback
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| Locksmith Animation provided industry feedback |
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