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Night Clergy

My thesis is a concept project centered around the production for my show idea Night Clergy. Night Clergy is an animated series that explores the effects of community on the self, others and humanity as a whole. The show follows Neo, a vampire who longs for his lost humanity, and his blossoming relationship with Orion, a priest deep in the throes of an identity crisis. By learning to understand one another, they discover that their similarities are deeper than they first thought...

Sparked by characters I designed in high school, I wanted to use this project to express my complicated feelings on the meaning of community and belonging and what that means for me and the people I hold close. This project is an outlet of sorts, a physical manifestation of my inner conflict between forging my own path and following my desires to be something greater than myself, and recognizing the people I surround myself with in shapes who I am. With this project, I'm realizing that those two things can coexist, and that without the people around me, I wouldn't be able to find that path to call my own to begin with.

Bio

Hatchet Kline is a concept artist and character designer with a focus on the supernatural and monstrous mixed with the domestic and mundane. Their personal projects have a focus on psychological exploration of the characters they create, and the concept of unconscious instinct versus conscious restraint. Inspired by prolific filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, Hatchet finds themselves daydreaming about the idea of a lovable monster more often than a person maybe should.

When not pondering monsters, Hatchet can be found slumbering deep beneath the Earth's crust, with a rumbling snore that wakes indecipherable horrors that shake the souls of mortal men. Or just eating sushi with their partner. Depends on the day.