Welcome to 2010. So what's your new year's stop-mo resolution?
For myself, I have a personal project that's been in the works for over 5 years now, and has had it's ups and downs with a couple of failed take-offs. However, this year, I am joining the rest of you out there making your own movies on your own dime. Puppet production is underway, story and script are getting ironed out, and with any luck, there may even be some animating this year... but not likely. I'm still on the fence about posting production photos of this project. If I do, that may be an entirely separate blog to maintain. Machine IN Use is still more of a news and what's out there vehicle.
So let's start.
First off, take a trip on over to IndieGoGo for a look at Justin and Shel Rasch's work on their new movie, The Line. This website allows you to help fund their movie while giving you serious credit and swag.
http://www.indiegogo.com/LINE?account_id=10460&iggref=invt&key=oAg3wrxJ
Secondly, have you had a chance to check out the Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox yet? Visually, this is an incredible book. There's plenty of concept art and pics of puppets. I found the text to be minimal since it was limited to interviews and captions, but the cool part was the e-mails they had of Wes Anderson to the animators, DP's, or whomever else he was giving feedback to. I thought this was really interesting because you get to see what the actual dialogue was.
In related news to Mr. Fox, check out this site for some really awesome concept art.
http://criscoh.xanga.com/
On a final note, my blogging has been spotty this past year, and I'm giving you warning that it's going to continue that way as I have a lot of work planned ahead as well as a possible website redesign. So check in when you can and hopefully I'll have something posted for you
