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I'm making a short film. It's about sense and love and death. I'm 25 years old so I don't want to pretend I know too much about love and death but thats what its about. Its animated so it'll look cool at least.

I'm lucky enough be making this film with a bunch of mates I went to college with and been working with for years under the name of Delicous 9. We've done a bunch of music videos and visuals together, and bits and pieces for T.V. and theatre but this will be our first biggish project. Our 'calling card' as some people have it.

This blog will hopefully be a documentation of the making of the film, for my funders, for animators, film-makers, students and whoever is interested. Its being made in a slighly interesting manner, with actors and cg and junk so maybe somebody will see the technique and go "wow i gotta use that in my next mobile phone commercial!" or maybe michel gondry will see it and go "oui oui i shall call this man and hire him to direct all my films instead of me oui oui" or whatever.

So check back from time to time to see pre production designs, progress on CG models, animation tests as well as mindless drunken rants blaming everybody but myself.

I'm currently trapped in a beuraucratic nightmare of red tape and documentation, waiting for the first installment- but I won't go into that because it doesn't really matter, all its doing is holding back the production. Only that its been good and bad, good because I've had time to really look at the film and work out how its going to be made, bad because I'm living in abject poverty, being told that I'll start getting paid in 2 weeks for the past 2 months.

Deadline is April 2005. About 6 months to go. 8 minutes of CG animation, with a core team of three people. Yipes!