It’s important The Precinct have a distinctively rocking sound, and for that I’m relying largely on my recently acquired collection of budget ’80s synthesizers and keyboards, the idea being that capturing the special timbre of my beloved cheap cop movies will somehow channel their spirit into the sky above New York City and open the…
What is The Precinct? — part three: a treasury of cop movie reviews
Lately I’ve been spending my Christmas holiday time (a.k.a. “sparse employment”, a.k.a. “between contracts”, a.k.a. “freelancing”) working on personal projects such as The Precinct and watching inspirational films/TV. Aside from having bought season one of Columbo and The Shield on DVD, I’ve also bought up thirty or forty cop movies for a dollar each from…
Recording Session 01
On Thursday last week we had our first actual recording session. Previously myself and longtime pal Adam Wajnberg recorded a temp dialogue track at my place and I put that over the animatic (a rough pose-to-pose version of the episode). Watching this back did not fill me with confidence, because we’d talked weird and made…
What is The Precinct? — part two: character design development
Here are sketches of what some particular types of people might look like in the world of The Precinct: A radio talkback host A gorgeous supermodel The loud drunk guy on the tram Real life comics superstars JAn Napiorkowski and Jason Badower (whose names will have to change to BEn Napiorkowski and Ben Badower if…
What is The Precinct? — part one: character design development
The Precinct came from a fairly stupid idea I had about making a live-action cop series that was supposed to be from Europe and “dubbed” into English. It would be unclear as to whether the cops were actually cops or just weird guys who liked dressing like them and running down alleyways. And they would…
BG design
This is what The Precinct looks like from the outside. It is located in a popular ethnic shopping strip, next door to Mr Lowinsack’s famous bagel emporium (soon to include a new espresso machine!). [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.nakedfella.com/animation/theprecinct/precinctbg.swf” width=”360″ height=”200″/] Test includes dusk, dawn and late night colour schemes. As you can see, I’m implementing an actual…