On Wednesday I started doing my taxes by tallying up my income for 2013/14. Because this is so exciting, I live-tweeted it. This year’s count is unusual in that, most years, I am employed on a full time contract for at least part of the year. This one, not. — David Blumenstein (@nakedfella) June 25, …
Tag: Animation
2013: a recap
I had a good year, and I’m thankful. I know not everyone did. I had a bunch of good jobs and did a lot of my own work and had fun in between. Here’s some of what I got up to in 2013! You can click it for a larger version.
BE A MAN: Precinct colour palettes
Not to make a big deal of it, but I’m designing the rooms in The Precinct so that they get bluer and colder the further back into the building you go. The women’s bathroom sits outside that because it was more recently renovated.
“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 …
Be A Man: animatic action
These images are from the storyboards I’ve been doing for my animated series, BE A MAN. Actually, they’re an awkward cross between storyboards and animatic frames. Storyboards should be clear and easy to read when printed on paper. These would be quite difficult to read because of the way I do my boards — I …
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 …