'Criminals', Trees and Picking up Cotton
Friday August 31 2007
If I had to think of a word to describe the action of the 'criminals' who liberated about 20 metres of copper piping from the side of our studio thus...
Carts
Thursday July 19 2007
I think the problem with animation is that we have to build things first. The said things are from 1095 and we have a basic gist of what they look like and what they do but I'm currently building a horse drawn cart. The driving and turning mechanism is quite difficult...
June
Saturday July 7 2007
The purpose of Jacob and I traveling around the world for the last month was to solely find white 16mm diameter 4mm center hole plastic beads. And as much as I'd like to say mission accomplished the aircraft carrier in me won't allow it. New York, Frankfurt,...
Microwaving Cereal, 2009 Calendars and Minerals Carried by Rain
Tuesday May 29 2007
Microwaving cereal doesn't make it dinner. Professor pebbles is totally done. So much so that Bernard Derriman has seen it and asked about the next one... he obviously has a calendar that goes up to 2009. Boy I hope our executive producer doesn't read this as our due date is June 30th as in 35 days away...
In the Can, Hooking Up and Starving Raccoons
Thursday May 3 2007
Professor Pebbles is technically finished. I believe all parties have signed off on it, thus making the film "in the can". We have been knocked back from two festivals that would have really been nice to get into. Sydney picked us up which is good......
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Hot Glue, Scene 13 and being daunted...
Friday September 5 2008
Ahh Perth… sunny, dry and far from where you have to be in 10 mins... yes I might concede that the public transport system takes a little longer but meh.. So for the last 7 months I’ve been in Melbourne doing some guff and bunk on a stop- mo feature which has been excellent in terms of developing my skills in the animation racket but not so good for the layers of dust on the sets and construction for CEDRIC and HOPE.. But what is dust?
So I don’t know if I should list all the things I’ve learned or if I should list the products but Hot Glue and Lighter Fluid was probably the top, and not just normal Hot Glue, the expensive oddly shaped $1 a stick and you can only be used with the expensive $300 hot glue gun. So many new products that I can’t believe I did with out. So many new products that if inhaled will cause all kinds of terrible things. Metal work is my next big thing, I must buy a lathe and lathe things. People can bring things over and I would lathe it down to something lathe-ie-er.
Returning to the studio is soon my regular thingo, I’m a little behind on set construction and Steve will be building also. Seems most concepts of sets are done but the rest of the construction seems insurmountable and daunting. I might sculpt till I can’t move my little fingers anymore. Trees I’ve found can be purchased off the internet rather than sculpted with wire foam and plaster… theres so many sets, and so many characters and figures, what was I thinking when I wrote Scene 13, why didn’t I end it after scene 8, is scene 4 really necessary? Scene 6 is like a massive thing for one gag, and it really could do with a scene 15…
I’m also into sculpy and superglue. But enough about me, how are you? Phew, I’m a bit rusty on these reports. Ormonoid… that’s a good product. It's bitumen paint but you can spray it on things with water spary and it looks old. Bitumen…bitumen… bitumen... becomes non sensical doesn’t it.
So now I have to work on rebuilding my relationship with my 2 cats, Neville and Shaft the Second and rework CEDRIC and HOPE and then make the film. Also I need to get my mind back as its turned to mush… mush… mush…
This self-glorification is by Pierce Davison. He received 51% in TEE English so you can email spelling corrections etc to spelling@davisonbros.com
Or you know, look at what's blathered rather than how its blathered. ps its blather.
