A cheeky little slice

Keyframing has been handed out and animation has officially started for TOWELS.

After a VERY serious discussion with the crew, I have come to the decision to keep the film as TOWELS (all caps of course). Everyone agreed 'Towel Territory' was a bit of a mouth full and too much on the nose but somehow just 'towels' they seem to like.

So TOWELS* it is.

As promised here is a little snippet of the film.

*We also made a Twitter account for the film so if anyone out there is interested in seeing what is going on behind the scene and keep up with our latest updates it is TOWELSfilm.

TOWELS is on its way!!

After a couple of animatic reviews and tutorials, we can finally say that the animatic is locked down!

It is really strange and wonderful to see colour slowly appear in the animatics as well as more and more backgrounds are being completed.

There are still certain timing bits that need sorting out but so far we are ahead of schedule.

Hopefully will soon have a little snippet to share on here.

For now here's just a still from our latest animatic.

It's been a while

This blog has been quiet for a long time. There are so many things in the works at the moment, from directing a final year film to dissertations and getting things ready for my portfolio.

I will soon be moving my work to a professional blog soon but for now here are some bits and bobs from the film. Production should be on its way before Christmas.

I can't wait to start to see the film come together.

Cheeky mid-pitch doodle

Pitching petrified

We just had our big rehearsal pitches today and although I felt exactly the way the title of this post suggests.

However, luckily it didn't go as badly as I feared it would go. I just kept reminding myself to breathe, think and then speak. There are still loads of room for improvement and the ending of my idea still needs to be rehashed, but I think the rest of it came through okay.

Now I need to just go back to the drawing board and try and build my story from the beginning again to see what I am missing.

Here are some of the final concept art I used in the pitch:

I really think I'm going to use the summer to pitch my story to different people to see how they react to the story and get different opinions on it.

What dreams may become (1998) - Vincent Ward

I recently came across an old film that I had once watched when I was around 8 or 9.

I didn't remember much about the plot but even though I hadn't seen it in about 13 years I could still remember specific scenes from the film.

Not only was the story itself beautiful but each scene was composed wonderfully.

I loved how each scene and the environments in the afterlife was presented like a painting.

From romantic landscape paintings to scenes that seemed to echo old renaissance paintings.

(Still from the film)

(The Garden of Earthly Delights)

The visuals of the film really serve the hard topic of the film really well. The surreal world the protagonist experiences are not easy things to depict, yet we find our self completely submerged in it. 

I also love the way the same shade of blue and red and tones of yellow keep reappearing through the film. It acts as a perfect guide in order for to help us pick up on the certain visual cues and how the real world is echoed in the afterlife.

Watching it really makes me itch to paint again.

Winter in Easter