Welcome to 22 to 28 November 2015. The TL;DR version: five minute movie on hold; one minute movie being prepped; ill again (bah!)

On Sunday I got the story to the point where it’s ready to be a pitch again. Hooray! And then.. brick wall. I felt overwhelmed with the idea of even putting together a pitch presentation for it. I’ve been doing development for so long (almost an entire year) that I’m mentally stuck there. That won’t do.

Truth is that I’ve sunk so much time into crafting the story for a short film that I forgot I’m in this to make a film, not just develop a story where the resulting film is a completely abstract proposition. (If I can ever convince someone to pay me to sit in a writer’s room coming up with funny, maybe I can go back to thinking that way…)

In order to manage this apparent stagefright, the longer AMITS short film now goes on the backburner. I’m treating it as a longer-term goal to work up to via shorter films.

So for now I’m going to work on a shorter piece featuring Gronky and Pointy in a situation that fits the middle act of the film. The situation is as follows:

Gronky brings Pointy a hat. Pointy tries to leave. The hat has other ideas…

I’ve been sketching it out and readying the necessary assets. Compared to the needs of the full film, it is blissfully simple and much less intimidating. The hat asset needs to be built and Gronky’s face needs to be updated, then I can jump over to the crappymatic. Hurrah!

And then, just in time for the weekend, I came down with an upper respiratory infection. Boo. So I’ve been watching a ton of old Buster Keaton shorts while convalescing. I seem to be getting over it pretty quickly – laughing at Buster’s antics helps.

Another distraction this week: Krita’s animation branch beta has hit. (I animated a couple of little loops with Pointy and Gronky and here they are.)

That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading. 🙂