Happy new year. Today I did a schedule for my film. I want to finish it by February 15th so that I can submit it to Annecy. I’ve done some maths (I can do animation and maths) and I worked out I need to do about 80 seconds a week which is 11.4 seconds a day if I work every day. I’ve done about 80 seconds already so basically all I need to do is do the equivalent of what I’ve done from July 20th, 2011 to January 2nd, 2012 in a week, every week, for six weeks. At times like this I look back to when I’ve made films before…
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Happy new year.

Today I did a schedule for my film. I want to finish it by February 15th so that I can submit it to Annecy. I’ve done some maths (I can do animation and maths) and I worked out I need to do about 80 seconds a week which is 11.4 seconds a day if I work every day. I’ve done about 80 seconds already so basically all I need to do is do the equivalent of what I’ve done from July 20th, 2011 to January 2nd, 2012 in a week, every week, for six weeks.

At times like this I look back to when I’ve made films before…

Francis Cooper completion rate

Been working at Aardman on some ITV Christmas idents with Tim Ruffle. Been hard resisting getting into the spirit and watching my favourite Mariah Carey/Disney Christmas video before it’s December but I’ve managed it so far. Also moved to London and been working on my film in-between jobs. I’ve set myself a deadline of 15th February for the Annecy short film deadline to get it done. A schedule is what I need. Going ok so far though; picture for proof that I’ve done at least 65 frames.
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Been working at Aardman on some ITV Christmas idents with Tim Ruffle. Been hard resisting getting into the spirit and watching my favourite Mariah Carey/Disney Christmas video before it’s December but I’ve managed it so far.

Also moved to London and been working on my film in-between jobs. I’ve set myself a deadline of 15th February for the Annecy short film deadline to get it done. A schedule is what I need. Going ok so far though; picture for proof that I’ve done at least 65 frames.

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been recording the voices for my film. Due to budget constraints I did it in a walk in wardrobe. Here’s Andy London in action.

Just back from Annecy which was brilliant as usual. Here’s my film that was in competition in the shorts selection way back in 2008. I’m working on my new film now; really hope to see it there next year!

I drew 160 heads. Think my favourite is second column in, third row from bottom with the glasses. Also the one with the round head eigth column in, second one down.
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I drew 160 heads. Think my favourite is second column in, third row from bottom with the glasses. Also the one with the round head eigth column in, second one down.

I’ve started doing some concept drawings for my new animation. Here’s a block!
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I’ve started doing some concept drawings for my new animation. Here’s a block!

I decided to look through some old photos I took when I was a teenager as a bit of research for my new film. They’re quite grumpy, but I still quite like them - I think they reflect where I grew up quite well!

I spent Saturday in Cardiff working on my new film script and some designs with the boys from Holbrooks for company! It was good fun and I managed to write up all of my notes from all the bits of paper I had floating around which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Worryingly though, I didn’t have any ideas written on napkins - as you probably know, all great ideas start on napkins. I’d forgotten how hard all this film making can be and I thought maybe I haven’t got it in me anymore - but then my mum kindly reminded me on the phone, “When you finished Keith Reynolds you said you never wanted to make another film ever again” and I remembered I’ve always found it hard. Thanks mum; happy mothers’ day! Here’s a picture of us working. n.b. I added the lens flare to my script in Photoshop to make it look better.
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I spent Saturday in Cardiff working on my new film script and some designs with the boys from Holbrooks for company! It was good fun and I managed to write up all of my notes from all the bits of paper I had floating around which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Worryingly though, I didn’t have any ideas written on napkins - as you probably know, all great ideas start on napkins.

I’d forgotten how hard all this film making can be and I thought maybe I haven’t got it in me anymore - but then my mum kindly reminded me on the phone, “When you finished Keith Reynolds you said you never wanted to make another film ever again” and I remembered I’ve always found it hard. Thanks mum; happy mothers’ day!

Here’s a picture of us working. n.b. I added the lens flare to my script in Photoshop to make it look better.