January 4th 2015
And certainly it's icy out there, but happy New Year to you all.
I'm not sure exactly what's going to happen this year. I start it officially out of work, but I'm hoping it is all going t kick off. I have a few random days of meetings and teaching, and the opera I am doing later in the year already being advertised (long before I've even worked out what is happening in the plot - yes it's Il Trovatore with it's famous wrong baby on the fire scenario), and the play I am doing at the Garrick in April on the way to selling out.
But animation wise, there's a project I want to happen above anything else. A project I have been working on since April, writing an hour every night come hell or high water. And it's in good shape. We just need the green light and I can spend time and make it in more that good shape. It's certainly a different film, most especially in the telling.
Plenty of stop motion on television over Christmas from Mr fox to a feast of Harryhausen. I wonder what a collective noun on harryhausen work is - a hydra? There was a rather raw but energetic Christmas special based on Elf - this came from Disney and was screened with not one credit. That was rather alarming, in many ways. Especially after skimming through the final Hobbit and their credits that made up for a tenth of the film.