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Leadership
Lately I’d been thinking about all the work I’ve been doing toward getting The Precinct happening. It’s kept me very busy, but probably not as busy as I would be if were making the show itself. So I probably need to get used to this level of activity!
I’ve been wondering what kind of director I’d [...]
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 for exciting [...]
Production begins on The Precinct, episode 00b: “Playing To Win”
YES! So, as I mentioned previously, I’m starting up a new Precinct short animation, the goals of which are:
to give viewers a bit more of the story we’re dealing with in the series
to reveal a bit more about Det. Ackersley’s personality
to show lots more ACTION and fast cutting
to shamelessly wallow in my John Farnham love [...]
Uncle Eddie makes me think, Precinct art for sale
This blog post by animation artist Eddie Fitzgerald made me think!
Also, I uploaded some Precinct art I did for an exhibition last year to RedBubble so they can be purchased as little greeting cards and nice art prints:
I’ve bought a couple things myself so I can see what the quality’s like. I’ll let you know. [...]
Adam speaks
I asked Dave if I could submit my own blog post for the show, the idea being that I could draw in interested parties that know me, and not Dave, and to introduce my own voice to existing followers as the other creative party at this point. So allow myself to introduce myself.
I’m Adam Wajnberg, [...]
Engage!
Lately I’ve been hearing two concepts that disturb me. They’re related.
One is that artists in the very exciting 21st century need to “engage”* with their audiences using various Web 2.0 methodologies and mass marketing principles. It’s not enough to make something, you have to Facebook it. You have to expose yourself.
The other thing, more disturbing [...]
“The Precinct? Next week.”
The title references my interior monologue when I consider what I should post about. I’ve been putting off talking much about the show because there’s always lots of small developments happening but rarely anything real big and awesome to talk about.
You can imagine it’s got to be tougher than ever to get an animated series [...]
“Nu?” Media
The current Precinct news is that we’re going to be sitting down to create a “cross-platform strategy” for the series — a report on how we’d integrate “new media” elements into the show (a tie-in website? games? stuff you can interact with via your mobile device?).
This is going to be very interesting because most new [...]
Writing The Precinct
The full Precinct series, as currently envisioned, is thirteen 11 minute episodes. These thirteen episodes have been plotted but now need to actually be written. This is what Adam and I have been doing for a while.
We have drafts of Episode 1 (“End Game”) and Episode 6 (“Last Drinks”) and are working on Episode 2 [...]
