DONE.

SHEL HERE...

NOVEMBER 2008

DECEMBER 2005








2 years and 11 months later.....

• a few winters, summers, springs, falls
• countless nights of justin animating when he could've been sleeping
• [11 seasons of south park (twice over), 8 seasons of sienfeld, 4 seasons of futurama, 3 seasons of american dad and 2 seasons of duck tales playing in the background while justin animated ]
• over 10,000 photos
• 9 characters drawn, sculpted, sculpted again, molded and armatured
• many yards of armature wire
• over 40 puppets foamed and painted
• gallons of foam latex
• 4 sets
• hundreds of bricks
• thousands of tie down holes drilled
• 10 drill bits
• 3 cameras
• pounds of clay
• an entire jar of museum wax
• many bottles of paint
• bottles and bottles of zap a gap
• dozens of glue gun sticks
• rolls and rolls of duct tape
• hours and hours of editing
• 24 musicians
• 1 amazing composer
• tons of lessons learned
• 32 gallons of love
• 50 gallons of passion
• the perfect amount of helpful and friendly advice
• lots of new friends
• a whole new life focus
• 1 story told
  
  DONE.
  
  wow.
  
  whew.
  
  YAY.
  
  i've been sending out practically finished versions to lots of fests....and we should start hearing back in 3 or 4 weeks....
  

another fest blast:
and here's the sick part (especially considering we haven't officially celebrated yet): now, we are all super pumped up about our next flick. we've been working out the story on long hikes in Griffith Park and i like it. i'm itching to start figuring out the new puzzles, it's going to be a fun story to make. we are really close to putting our thoughts and images on paper. we've learned SO MUCH from Gerald (i was looking over an old production sched i made in early 2006 and noticed i had given us 1 month for post production---HA!). it feels completely different going in now with a sense of what we are up against. and like justin said earlier, we are trying to keep it really simple in terms of sets/characters/length.....no dialogue this time. so hopefully we can do it in a year. that's the goal, we'll see....... in any case, i'm definitely looking forward to the new journey.

we'll keep ya posted (of course!!)