Jim Goes Home.

This book was the culmination of a whole year of working. It was the basis for my senior thesis and is the most difficult piece I’ve made to this day. Not only difficult in the sense of technical/creative/material but also emotionally.

When I was ten years old my father passed away from cancer. It changed the whole course of my life and was something I had a really hard time processing growing up. I avoided the issues I had with it for a long time and found this to be the only way I could finally work through it. The main character in this story, the skeleton lizard guy, is Jim. He’s my alter ego that exists in my head, and throughout this story he goes through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The purple flying creature represents my mom and my brother, my companion who is there for me.

This piece isn’t perfect, and it doesn’t always make sense to the reader, but I learned a lot while making it and I discovered a lot about myself that I’d never known before. I improved in multiple different mediums and achieved more than I thought was capable of myself at the time.

Enjoy.