A four-minute short film. The first meeting between Sundog and the mountaineer, and how their final journey begins.
A look behind the final, showing how the cast and crew worked together to bring the Halcyon to life.
Sundog, born from a memory of sunlight, greets the mountaineer in the liminal world of The Halcyon.
Ren on set with Sundog and The Saccharine Passerine.
Bachelor of Design with Honours
Concept Design
The Halcyon explores puppetry as a bridge between memory and material reality. The project examines how puppets can embody comfort, grief, and imagination. Through digital painting, theatrical stagecraft, and fabricated creatures like Sundog, I built a world that visualises remembrance as performance. The project combines theory and craft to celebrate creative artifice and to question what it means to give life to inanimate matter.
