This Is Fun

They don't eat chips properly in Korea. (From a newspaper in the rain)

Fresh fish and chips in the sun on a white sandy beach is alright for those that can't get any better.

Inbetweening!

My arm aches a bit, but damn its good to be doing this again. Reminds me of the amazing time we had at Ink Digital.

Sharing Khef

I wrote this in an email to a friend and it's as good a window into my thoughts and feelings as I've been able to express so far. -

I just want to make and sell films. The main way I want to do this is by periodically releasing very short, but intriguing films and charging a small amount for the newest one, so the rest build interest. In other words, I won't release the first until I have a second in the bag to sell. I can give the first away, or sell merchandise at festivals to bring attention to the one behind the pay wall. Otherwise, I'd like to attach it to a magazine, newspaper or comic, since a monthly comic is what it's closest to in terms of pace. One 'scene' per episode, with a bit of a cliff-hanger. Think of the way Watchmen is broken up for example, and was originally released as a serial alongside other stories.
I don't know which of these, if any, will pan out, but even if they don't I will have made a new film, which is my goal more than anything else to begin with.

There's no losing along this road, and there's space for the romanticism that keeps me going.

Episode One: Progress Chart

Well it's taken a couple of weeks to put in the last little X. These things end up meaning a lot to you by the end of production, if they survive the initial urge to set them on fire.

Wolf God Layer

A new production drawing for Runaways.

Bird Animation

Runaways Pilot Animatic

The first draft animatic for a series pilot about a girl and a dog, who run away to live independently in the woods.

Wolf God 2

The next stage after the animatic is finished: Creating the objects in Photoshop to animate in After Effects.

A Glimpse

Wolf_walk Animation

Adrienne and Battle Kitten Sage

Some Rebecca Dart fan art! Featuring two models I had to hand. :)

Bangers

Adrienne at Yakcheonsa Temple

Transport

We bought ourselves a scooter to explore more of this wonderful island. It's been better than we could have imagined, stopping wherever we like just to stare about, before shooting off again.
Fantastic.

The Wolf God

Not the Thing, But the Idea of the Thing

I love the idea that something is only represented on screen by what people think of it. In Runaways, I'm planning a wolf god for dogs, wolves in nightmares, plays, hallucinations and caricatures. I want to explore the idea that stories with wolves in are really just about people and their relationship with nature.

Above the Waves

                     "Salt water is bitter. It disdains all human connection; love and hate, debt and honour, the care of a father or the embrace of a lover. It is merciless to all peoples alike, not stooping to distinguish between the good and bad among its victims.
                    Some talk however, of those who cannot sink or drown, but walk the ocean waves as vagrants on an endless desert."  
                                               ~ Old Sailor

This story begins with a ship wrecked at sea.
                    A young mother still weak from bringing her boy into the world was pulled under in the tempest along with the entire crew, even as they celebrated his birthday.
                    Yet this twice adored boy was left behind. For since his first breath let loose in his first scream, the sea had loved him too, instantly and unconditionally. The sea spared the boy for its surface, where those roam whom it has disdained for their loneliness, their callousness and their abjection, so that it could watch the boy and keep him for its own.

New Characters

Two of the main players in Project: Runaways; Andrew Scott, Regional Council leader and Macpherson, the sheep farmer.

A Park in Jeju - Evening

This Vicious Cabaret

They say that there's a broken light

For every heart on broadway.

They say that life's a game,

then they take the board away.

They give you masks and costumes

and an outline of the story.

Then leave you all to improvise

their vicious cabaret.

-Alan Moore