The Cul-De-Sac is a collaborative 3d animation project by Tony Barone and Cal Piorkowski.

Tony and Cal are both graphic artists with 3D modeling and animating experience. They are also fans of the horror movie and Halloween genre. The Cul-De-Sac was first inspired when Tony was showing Cal his 3D model of the Disney’s Haunted Mansion and the Amityville Horror house. Cal suggested to take the models and create a neighborhood to showcase them in. Obviously two houses are not enough to build a neighborhood out of so they started working together to add all of their favorite horror movie haunts into one neighborhood. Tony created most of the houses while Cal built the landscape and layout of the cul-de-sac. The first cul-de-sac animation was completed on Halloween of 2016. Each year proceeding we created a new version.

There are multiple versions because we continuously improve The Cul-De-Sac. Each version shows major improvements made or new techniques that we learned.

The ultimate goal is to create a real animated short with a storyline utilizing The Cul-De-Sac.