Meet some more of The Precinct‘s characters: With a yell that can explode pot plants, Sarge keeps The Precinct functioning — difficult, given the number of narcissistic, preening nutbags who work there. The Precinct loses more budget and resources every year — “tightening our belts”, says Mayor Rochman, who has plenty of reason to want…
Tag: Development
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…
New Precinct pics
For the last couple of months we’ve been working on a new pitch/proposal for a Precinct half-hour series. This has meant a lot of meetings re the scripts (which need to be reworked to fit the longer format), the plots and the “big ideas” behind the show (we’re thinking about three seasons’ worth, so there’s…
The Precinct: 2011 lineup
I’m doing a new version of The Precinct bible/pitch thingo, so I bit the bullet and sat down for a couple days to redraw all the characters, adding a few newies and changing one or two completely.
John Howard facial animation test
John Howard’s Knees – facial animation test from David Blumenstein on Vimeo. A short facial animation test for John Howard’s Knees! I’ve gone through a few different designs for Howard; this one is the simplest, but I wasn’t sure if it would work with the voice. I built a set of standard “sad” mouths…
The Precinct — SBS submission
Finally, some Precinct work again! I’m putting together a new submission to SBS for The Precinct. We’ve actually submitted The Precinct to SBS twice before, but those proposed different show formats and lengths, and we’ve developed our ideas a lot more since then, especially thanks to our being funded to work on cross-platform strategy by…