A Long Overdue Update
The budget for Bear Town was put together over the summer. After doing a complete breakdown of the film's script and crunching the numbers and then crunching them again I was able to work out that the minium budget the film needs to be completed and still look fairly professional is $235,000. Unfortunately, it looks like realistically that the maximum amount that could be raised to make the movie right now is about $150,000. As much as that might sound like a lot of money, it's just not going to cut it.
Bear Town is a big, complex and expensive project to do with puppets. That's the reason it's taken over a decade to be able to do it. This was a very disappointing conclusion to come to, but I've decided that if I've had to wait this long to make the film I don't want to compromise and waiting a little longer won't be so bad. Over the summer I put most of the Bear Town puppets (both finished and unfinished) in to storage in Canada before coming back to Mexico in mid-August.
The summer has been spent developing a couple of other projects. One hit the web a little while ago, PuppetBuilding.com a new web site devoted entirely to puppet building. It's updated several times a week with puppet building news, information and tutorials. The site also has a Puppet Building Wiki which I hope will become a large collaborative effort to pool puppetry information. I'm doing a video podcast for the site as well, the first installment should be up sometime this weekend.
I can't talk much about the second project just yet, but I'm really excited about it. It's something relatively cheap that I've wanted to do for a long, long time. I've barely done any puppetry since the aborted Bear Town web series in 2004 so I'm eager to get away from the computer and back to what I really love to do.
I'd like to thank everyone who's followed the long, torturous development of Bear Town on the site. Although I doubt it will be updated much for the next year or two it will stay online. As for Omle, Hank and Tumbles and Bear Town? Don't worry, I'll get back to them when the time is right.
Meantime I'm still writing about puppetry daily in the PuppetVision Blog and now PuppetBuilding.com.
See you soon!
Bear Town is a big, complex and expensive project to do with puppets. That's the reason it's taken over a decade to be able to do it. This was a very disappointing conclusion to come to, but I've decided that if I've had to wait this long to make the film I don't want to compromise and waiting a little longer won't be so bad. Over the summer I put most of the Bear Town puppets (both finished and unfinished) in to storage in Canada before coming back to Mexico in mid-August.
The summer has been spent developing a couple of other projects. One hit the web a little while ago, PuppetBuilding.com a new web site devoted entirely to puppet building. It's updated several times a week with puppet building news, information and tutorials. The site also has a Puppet Building Wiki which I hope will become a large collaborative effort to pool puppetry information. I'm doing a video podcast for the site as well, the first installment should be up sometime this weekend.
I can't talk much about the second project just yet, but I'm really excited about it. It's something relatively cheap that I've wanted to do for a long, long time. I've barely done any puppetry since the aborted Bear Town web series in 2004 so I'm eager to get away from the computer and back to what I really love to do.
I'd like to thank everyone who's followed the long, torturous development of Bear Town on the site. Although I doubt it will be updated much for the next year or two it will stay online. As for Omle, Hank and Tumbles and Bear Town? Don't worry, I'll get back to them when the time is right.
Meantime I'm still writing about puppetry daily in the PuppetVision Blog and now PuppetBuilding.com.
See you soon!
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