Week Three

So it's week three and things are going slow or least it feels that way. I'm working on the third draft of the script which is sure to get torn to shreds by Neale and/or Jack, it's becoming a process of one step forward and two steps back. At this early stage it's frustrating but ultimately necessary.

I think this year I'm going to tackle pre-production differently, I've decided to do thumbnails simultaneously with script writing. I've found that drawing things out help me to work out any script issues I've had.

I had originally planned to film puppets for the real world elements of the animation and 2D animation for the fantasy world elements but now I've decided to stick to 2D animation only. I didn't want to waste my time trying to get puppets to perform the way I want, so now I'll focus on doing great animation.

I still want the real world and fantasy world to have two different animation styles. In the early phases of this story I was playing with the idea of using shadow puppets for the fantasy world and after seeing this video I'm planning on using 'fake' paper puppets using After Effects.