Salty the water dragon (Maggie Buckley) just wants to spend the summer skateboarding around South Bank - but when the infernal Australian heat summons Deviant the demon (Liam Burford), Salty must challenge him to a race to decide the fate of her home, lest it meets its fiery doom.

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Hot as Hell is a 2D animated short film I directed, that was produced at Griffith Film School. I also wrote, storyboarded, designed characters, props and backgrounds, animated, did clean-up and colour, and did some compositing for the film.
 

The film was first conceived in my first year of uni in the South Bank parklands. I drew little demons and skateboarding lizards between classes, surrounded by Australian native plants and countless water dragons, ibis and possums. It really is a love letter to that space, Australian summers and the people you find there; tourists, sweaty brisbanites, and tired uni students.