Post by Don
The story, which is inspired by chaotic and ridiculous real life events of our friends, was refined and edited by all three of us in a brain storming session on December, 28 2009.
I think we were all really excited at how easy the brainstorming went. T-Bob spent the time on his laptop editing and changing the script as we all three refined ideas and dialog and in general we laughed and had a good time.
Compelled by the ease of collaboration and collective desire to make this short come to life we set another production meeting for the following monday.
We met as planned at my place on January 4th 2010 around noon. We were all hungry so we made a giant scramble egg dish using left overs from my fridge (spinach, onions, garlic, cheese) and had some toast with assorted jams. Bernard noticed that the blackberry jam we were eating had mold in the top of the lid, so we quit eating that.
After brunch we began sketching storyboards and shot lists and worked till about 7:30 till T-Bob had to leave for his dance rehearsal. The storyboards were really coming together. Bernard was sketching and started to really get a feel for the look of some of the characters. T-bob manned the laptop and guided us with his input on framing camera movement . . . etc.
One thing that I thought was really funny was that I was doing really rough sketches with notes for character and camera movement but Bernard and I were essentially drawing the same angles and framing with out evening discussing it. The only exception being that almost every shot we drew mirrored from the others sketch . . . very interesting.
Got about 80% through the story-boarding and planned to meet again on Wed. The 6th.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Birth of Our Piggy
by Don
The name of the short is "Little Hog From Heaven" (LHFH) and we are titling the 'first' episode "Switcheroo".
T-Bob designed the basis of main characters a couple years ago in a couple of his paintings. Our main characters are Little Hog From Heaven and Evil Asian Robot and the main stories are inspired by chaotic and ridiculous real life events of ourselves and our friends.
In 2008 T-Bob and I spent an evening together flushing out a story idea and outline. T-Bob came back a week later with a written screen play and we recorded a rough read through of the first draft. T-Bob had been writing screenplays for a couple years already and had received a few awards for his finished scripts including being chosen as a finalist in the 2009 Slamdance Teleplay competition.
In Fall of 2009 Bernard finally moved out to Los Angeles to "pursue production opportunities" and we started playing with the idea of all three of us working together to create a film together.
Although none of us consider our selves cartoonists or illustrators, I was inspired by completing my first animated video for a holiday promotion earlier that month and was excited in trying to do something scripted on a larger scale.
Right after Christmas we decided there was no reason we shouldn't team up and see if we could make a little short film.
The name of the short is "Little Hog From Heaven" (LHFH) and we are titling the 'first' episode "Switcheroo".
T-Bob designed the basis of main characters a couple years ago in a couple of his paintings. Our main characters are Little Hog From Heaven and Evil Asian Robot and the main stories are inspired by chaotic and ridiculous real life events of ourselves and our friends.
In 2008 T-Bob and I spent an evening together flushing out a story idea and outline. T-Bob came back a week later with a written screen play and we recorded a rough read through of the first draft. T-Bob had been writing screenplays for a couple years already and had received a few awards for his finished scripts including being chosen as a finalist in the 2009 Slamdance Teleplay competition.
In Fall of 2009 Bernard finally moved out to Los Angeles to "pursue production opportunities" and we started playing with the idea of all three of us working together to create a film together.
Although none of us consider our selves cartoonists or illustrators, I was inspired by completing my first animated video for a holiday promotion earlier that month and was excited in trying to do something scripted on a larger scale.
Right after Christmas we decided there was no reason we shouldn't team up and see if we could make a little short film.
Little Blog Gets His Wings
Entry 1 - by Don Bodin
Having completed 3 very productive . . . um . . . production meetings for . . . um . . . producing an animated short film with my brothers (T-Bob and Bernard) my hope is that we can use this blog to document the journey of this collaboration.
I'll try and get all of us to update this regularly and there may be some overlap, but I think the difference in perspective alone will be educational.
Having completed 3 very productive . . . um . . . production meetings for . . . um . . . producing an animated short film with my brothers (T-Bob and Bernard) my hope is that we can use this blog to document the journey of this collaboration.
I'll try and get all of us to update this regularly and there may be some overlap, but I think the difference in perspective alone will be educational.
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