“How cheap can you make it?” – why I’m making a TV series, but not for TV
For years I asked myself why Australia hasn’t had its own animated series for adults. Now I know that it’s my own fault! “Pretty cheap!” Last year I went to a launch event put on by our state film funding body and SBS, Australia’s multicultural government TV network. At the drinks [...]
The Precinct: here’s what an animated cop show pitch looks like.
In 2011, the Precinct team put this proposal to SBS — a proposal for a half hour animated cop show for adults. We were told it would be good to have an idea of how three seasons’ worth of the show would work, hence the enormous cast and loads of plotting and ideas. We left [...]
Teasers for two new shows.
Holy what-do-you-know! Some tops people helped me make TWO entries for Movie Extra’s Webfest contest. Prize is $100,000 to make your show, so I figured, “yep”. Arran is a cartoonist, actor and all-round happy chappy, so I cast him as a gangster’s aide who is secretly an undercover cop. Aidzee is a comedian, comedy producer [...]
Can you guess who these people are?
It’s another impromptu idiot project of mine!
The Precinct: Characters pt 1 – Ackersley & Rochman
Now that I’m putting together a new version of The Precinct pitch/bible/thing I thought I’d do something I meant to do years ago on this blog: introduce the characters properly. I’ll try to add them regularly. Here’s today’s! Ackersley is the most dangerous officer at The Precinct: a loose cannon, a renegade. As an undercover [...]
Amazing games
While we’ve been working on our cross-platform strategy for The Precinct, I’ve been directed to some fantastic online games from which we’re taking inspiration. Here they are: http://windosill.com/ Windosill is incredible. You must play it, and you must pay $3 for the full version. It has so much style and personality. It’s as close to [...]
Proof things are moving along
Here’s the current version of my Farnsy-themed animatic!
-=0.0.0=- I (and our growing team) just spent a few weeks working on an application to Film Victoria‘s Digital Media Prototyping fund. It’s 80 pages long. You could injure someone with it if you swung it at their head. I would [...]Tear it up
On Wednesday night our MEGA session was about “Financial Feasibility”. In other words, we’d spent a couple months chucking ideas around in a friendly playpen, and our fearless leader Justin felt the need to dampen our enthusiasm by dropping some people with market experience on us. One was the afore-pictured (is that a word?) Brendan [...]
Rooms full of people with big brains
Going along to these MEGA sessions and listening to the smart people talk about interesting things reminds me of two other slightly similar gatherings. One I’ve actually been to, and one I’ve just seen bits of on the web. The one I’ve seen bits of on the web is called TED. Rebecca Clements put me [...]
No, really, I’m a writer
My day job at the moment is animating on the second series of Dogstar! The same trailer, in Japanese: I worked on the original series a few years back. As Australian kids TV goes, it’s pretty shit-hot (this means “good”). So Michael V (my deskmate) and I would amuse ourselves by coming up with ideas [...]