Although I am currently in Mexico, I'm returning to Canada for the summer and trying to plan out my work schedule for the next few months. I've just recently gotten to a point here where my puppet building workshop is more or less set-up so it's not practical or economically feasible to transport a lot of stuff back to Canada, so instead the summer will be spent trying to meet some important benchmarks for Bear Town's development. There are a number of techniques that are going to be used extensively in the film that I want to "test drive" over the summer:

• Composite puppet(s) with 2D matte paintings
• 2 1/2 D Matte Painting
• Completely model and finish one 3D virtual set
• Seamlessly integrate puppets in to a 3D digital set

Over the past week or so I had the flu so I've taken a bit of a break from puppet building for the film and I've been focused on writing and learning/mastering some of the more advanced features of Blender. I spend a few hours each morning working on the 3D end of things and then from one o'clock until about five each day I've been trying to work on polishing the script.

I'm planning to do a reading/workshop for the film in about six weeks and there is still a lot to do. I'm at a point where the first act is in relatively good shape, but the third and (especially) the second need a lot more work.

Posted by Andrew at 1:56 AM | Permalink

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