The only focussed stuff for “A Moment In The Sun” that I did this week was on Wednesday 28 May, when I storyboarded for a few hours and knocked over a few more shots. I’ve got the final shot to do definitely, plus perhaps one or two shots to storyboard in the middle of the film. The unstoryboarded shots I can fairly safely make up as I go once I’m underway.

I’m doing everything on this toon, so I can give myself a bit more freedom to improvise when it comes time. No need to wait for a sound design department to provide something that fits the part – I am all the departments already.

Other than that I worked on two modules of The Architecture Academy, took many photographs at Perth Zoo and Caversham Wildlife Park, and crossed seven movies off Martin Scorsese’s list after rediscovering that video libraries, moribund as they seem to be, can still be really useful for tracking down hard-to-find movies – good video libraries can anyway, not crappy generic franchises. (Big ups to the one and only Planet Video down on Beaufort Street.)

The old winter creative slowdown is definitely kicking in, but I’m still writing and drawing random stuff at least a little bit every day. I’ve done a couple of sheets of designs for Pointy which I’ll turn into something I can model off of, then we’ll see about getting him up and walking around. Shouldn’t be a hugely difficult build. Gronky, on the other hand, is wide open. The Gronkies I’ve drawn so far in storyboards were always intended to be placeholders, never a final character design. He doesn’t have to be too much more complicated, just more fun to look at. It’s proving a tough nut to crack.