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A quick post. We're gearing up for the possibility of doing some new Precinct cartoons later in the year, and I just found the animation notes I made for the toon we did in the lead-up to MIPCOM '08. So here is how to animate Precinct
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I went to COMICS CAMP a couple weekends ago, and since then I've been hard into (my day job, my freelance work, and also) my two current projects: a short film called John Howard's Knees and the animated cop show currently known as The Precinct. While
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Theoretically, this is the "Precinct" production blog, but clearly, over four years, it's become "David's blog". Since there's not too much Precinct news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I&
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Five very helpful people who helped me and The Precinct out by filling in our Cop Action Survey will now be receiving an original Precinct drawing by me. I won't announce who they are, but I now have to draw Precinct characters: * in a shower scene, with rude
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I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose
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Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that my blog now auto-posts my Tweets. I have no idea if this is annoying or useful, but since it keeps the blog current, I'm in favour of it. I minimise the number of tweets, keep them reasonably on-topic (cop
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Going to get a video of my MEGA pitch up as soon as I get hold of the (undoubtedly embarrassing) clip, but this is a summary of where The Precinct is now (also a summary of my pitch), as written for the MEGA guys: Australia doesn’t have its own
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The MEGA pitch went really well! Unfortunately, none of the broadcasters or entertainment types Justin invited actually showed! True, the pitches were happening right in the middle of the work day, but still... not good enough, ABC and SBS. You really had something better to do?... TEN THINGS THE REPS
Events
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
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
Animation
Here's the current version of my Farnsy-themed animatic! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.nakedfella.com/animation/theprecinct/0bPlayingtoWin.swf" width="512" height="288" allowfullscreen="true" /] -=0.0.0=- I (and our growing team) just spent a few weeks working