OUR FIRST REVIEW

CHECK IT OUT: Stop motion Animator Ryan McCulloch got a sneak peek and then posted a review of Gerald's Last Day.


It's got lots interactive clickables.

Thanks Ryan!

Special Features- Bunch a pics!

Hey guys!

Heres some of the latest....

a couple of weekends back a good friend from art school as well as fellow animator {John Kim} came over to Film our Special Features for the GLD - DVD. John is a Film /Camera buff and has created a series of animation reference DVDS under his lable {Rhino House}

http://www.rhinohouse.com/

as well as haveing over 10 years as a professional animator....creating the highest quality work. These dvds are AWESOME and I highly reccomend them to anyone wanting reference for Animals and Humans. He took about 2 + years off from the industry createing a dvd series supplying animators with highest quality footage of Animals and Humans.

His DVDs were created with animation in mind and it was awesome watching it all happen as well as our family getting to help out. I have used Johns story for inspiration and a look at whats possible with hard work and clear goals. He took a HUGE Risk in takeing his own money and time to Create this series and I gots the Highest respect for that.

I too will be takeing a break from the industry to make a Feature animated Film with Shel in the future and John is the person who showed me first hand I could make it a reality. so....This was our second attempt to film the interviews and such. Our first try was a couple of weeks ago and was a fail. We created a list of question from many different people online and questions I would like to know if I were to buy a Stop Mo DVD...........but........ the answers to the question seemed to drag on and the actual picture didnt have the appeal that John was looking for.

So.......We chalked it up to a practice run...... returning again for a second try we decided to edit in camera as much as we could to save time later. This meant clear chapters and sharper answers to the interviews. John also took the time to create nice lighting and compositions for all of the question answers. This brought the production quality up to a much higher quality.

We have it all in digital format now....and it is waiting to be edited...This is a task for after the holidays.....and Shel has some cool ideas on how to lay it out.

Heres some pics from the footage

In other News - We were accepted to a few more festivals...Very Exciteing!!!! We sent out our final movie to the production house for Digibeta movie dubs and a Master creation. This is a big Milestone for us and Its Looking great.

We also found out that we are among the 3 finalists at the {Show of your Shorts Film Fest} out here in Los Angeles. This is crazy cool...Ive seen the other films and I believe we really have a shot at winning. Its no easy win if we do..... but We are neck and neck in quality.

More to come.

jriggity

Toughguys Post it note - Animatic

Hey guys!

got another post it note animatic from the film to share.....These storyboards were done in the passenger side seat of our minivan on a roadtrip up north a few year ago.....These were little 2 by two {or so} yellow post its I got from work. Its funny how much creating I do in vehicles in traffic.

this will be the last animatic shared untill the release of the dvd.....I am takeing the advice of a few people and keeping the last 2 segments under wraps for the final release. This way theres still a few suprises.




We have alot of cool new stuff to post about...so ...stay tuned!

over and out.

jriggity

PRESS KIT (and new fest update side box)

Shel here:

i put a press kit together on a blog (inspired by ron cole's blog-hosted press kit--thanks ron!!)


check it out at: http://geraldslastday.blogspot.com/

also while putting it together i actually figured out how to do nifty little side boxes.....so check out our new FEST UPDATE box up and to your right----->

the saddest news is that we got slammed by slamdance--ouch! (it's nice they tell you either way at least).....and then we got tripple picked up by a group of CHIDREN'S FESTS so that was cool (and one of the fests is at COMICON which actually impressed our teenaged sons, now THAT'S an achievement!).

GLD gets adopted by 2 Festivals!

Shel Here:

The fest replies are starting to trickle in.....

first we got two NOs (well, really we got no news by the "notify by" date, which i'm pretty sure = NO).....i have to say--"OUCH".... i was kinda surprised that it bothered me, cuz i'd like to say i don't care what other people think of it, we did it for our own enjoyment of doing it....but it actually bothered me.

then we got a YES! from FESTIVUS a festival in Denver that we applied to cuz we wanted to have the film show where Justin's little sister lives......we are SUPER excited to share our first fest experience with Jenna and Chris.

then another no.....(Uhuuhhh!)

then yesterday i e-mailed one of the no-replys, HUBBUB (Las Vegas Animation Fest) and they actually wrote back (!) today and said, "sorry we're running late, but we want your film....."

so now we're up to 2 YESs.

YAY.

YAY.

meanwhile, i'm avoiding making the TRAILER by painting resin statues of all GLD's characters that our friend/amazing artist Leo Gotlibowski cast of justin's sculpts. I'd like to have them done for our PREMIER (at the beautiful and historic landmark Rialto theater for friends and fam on January 18 @ 5:00)....I'll post pics of the painted statues soon. and justin's avoiding working on the website by sculpting one of the characters for our next short, which we are excitedly into preproduction on. .........good thing we don't have lots of time to sit around and worry about fest YESes and NOs (HA!).