What is it called and what does it look like?

So after a few busy weeks, with some paid work, the mind wanders back into “new short film” mode again. A rough storyboard is done so thoughts have been towards a style frame. There’s one I think we’re quite happy with which I shall put up here because it doesn’t really give much away. It could even be seen as a misdirection.

The other thing, which I know isn’t REALLY important, is the title of the film. I keep thinking back to when I was in school; we’d want to form a band and the first thing we thought we needed was a name. That normally ended up being the last thing we thought of too. Thus I never played a real gig in my life.

More storyboarding and animation tests…

So I’m just completing the second draft of the film. I’m typing this so that would mean that I’m procrastinating. Which I kind of am, but I’m also not because I’ve been meaning to type this here for a good few days.

So yeah, storyboard is going good. I’m looking forward to it going into the computer so I don’t have to have paper everywhere.

We did a little animation test. It’s has the beginnings of something but definitely needs honing as the storyboard evolve. We should really do a style frame for it, or start one, to help that part of the process along.

We also have to think about casting. We need an older voice that can do a convincing lisp. Or David Mitchell or Paul Merton. Tom want’s some old wizard dude.

 

Here’s an octopus I did for my friends game ‘The 2D Adventures Of Rotating Octopus Character’… 

New short

At last! After an unhealthy lump of time we have the first draft of the storyboard done. Huzzah! The first draft is a very rough run through that’s basically going to tell us what should be said and what should be shown. We’ll time it out next and start taking out bits of text and adding images until the timing is helping with the narrative; that the spoken narrative and image are pulling in the same direction. I like this bit, it’s the bit where we get to see things start to work.

Boris’ Bees

Here’s the last of three little animations that we did for the Mayor of London. It’s cute! The other two are linked from the video…

Blacklist Ident

We did this a while ago now, but it’s still cool. It’s inspired by a childhood memory of a boy catching a fish and then bludgeoning it to death. We liked that contradiction of such a gentle leisure activity and the brutality of the death. We though we could use that as a parallel of the craft that Holbrooks has that it often mixes with a dryness that we have here too.

BLACKLIST Ident from holbrooks on Vimeo.

F5 is next weekend…

…and I want to go! Our film is called Velo Cerebrum btw. I’ll put a more in-depth post about the film next week on the Holbrooks site.

I do really want to go. I’m keeping a beady eye on hotwire for somewhere cheap to stay.
Here’s a bag of sugar I scrawled out on the iPad whilst waiting for nothing particular.

F5… Again!

Remember we did the sheep animation for the F5 festival a while ago? Well we’re doing another one and it’s hooding to look like a pretty cool guy. You heard.

Bad news

Our studio got robbed. The took everything with an apple logo plus my innocent backup drive. Last ten years of my life gone.

We. Are. Gutted.

Holbrooks reunited!

What a jolly good night we had! It was beerfest at my local. They had lots of ale and cider and perry. Yum. Here is a picture…

And here is a snapshot of some of the conversation:

per·ry [per-ee]
-noun, pl.-ries.
1. a fermented beverage similar to cider, made from the juice of pears.

wood louse
-noun Zool.
1. any of certain small, terrestrial crustaceans of the genera Oniscus, Armadillidium, etc., having a flattened, elliptical body.

pill bug
-noun
1. any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.

In summary:

Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common name of pill bugs or roly polies. The best known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill bug.

Ok would-be-employers! Wrap your eyelooks around this!

Don’t forget to write now!

Hmmm, I’m not sure how to make it wider on here. Here’s the link as well for now too – CLICK