I thought it was about time I added a new entry to the Blog. It has gone a few days since the last addition. The movie production, There is Love Of Course, hasn’t stagnated, but are still running smoothly and progresses forward according to schedule. I haven’t got around yet finishing the dedicated movie site, but it’ll come soon. In the meantime I thought I should post another teaser of some concept art I’m working on for the movie.

I’ve almost finished all concept art for it. All characters are in place, and also all environments but two are in place. So all concepts will be finished next week, together with a final storyboard of the movie. Then I think it’ll be proper to open up the movie site, so there is some content in it from the beginning.

On another note, I’ve been feeling creative lately, and have started writing a smaller script called The Institution, which I’ll have storming around in the back of my head. Don’t wanna get carried away with that one until I’ve come further along the path with TILOC.

Todays Drawing Music: Karma 64 - Slow Poison

Another There is Love of course update. I made the final version of the script. Rewrote and fine tuned some details from some parts of the draft. I’ve also started drawing concept art for the characters that will appear in the movie.

I’m about to begin storyboarding the entire script during the next week, and then I’ll get to the fun part, sculpting, painting and animating.
I’ve decided to publish quite a lot of the material that I create during the progress towards the final movie, so I’ll also open up the dedicated There is Love of course movie section next week, where all the fun and interesting stuff will appear. Watch out for the link.

Concept Art Drawing Music: Anna Ternheim (Mmmmmm)

Set aside all my own small personal projects with images and single artworks, I do also have some more serious projects in the pipeline. Commercial contractors, works and also my movie projects. And to my more serious projects, I got a brand new injection.

Today I had the most fantastic and wonderful experience for I don’t know for how long? Forever? Well, anyway, I had so much inspiration because of that, so I sat down non-stop and wrote a new script for a four minute long movie. Serious Kudos to that special person that injected me with all this inspiration today.
It’s a story about lost moments, missed opportunities and all despair and sadness there is in life. Well, can’t put in to much in four minutes. But doing an animated movie with a one man crew doing everything from script - storyboard - design - sculpting - painting - animation - sound - music - editing and so on, I gotta keep the length down to make it manageable.

I kept the number of characters and environments down as much as possible, so this shouldn’t be another taking forever project on my limited time and budget, and ended up with a script I’m very happy with. I project a schedule for it to be finished in January 2005.
I’ll keep the progress in the blog for the first wavering steps, and then I plan to move it all over to a dedicated movie site.

Script writing music: R.E.M - Out of Time

I have had some serious hardware trouble the last week. First did one of my storage hard drives just die on me. And bad luck usually just doesn’t end up with one thing, so just a few hours later my CPU decided to die on me as well. Can I say panic?
Well, I managed to rescue all files from my hard drive, and then I kicked it hard down the dumpster as soon as all the files where saved.

The CPU, well, not very much to do. I started getting CPU hardware failure reports from my OS, and then the computer hardly couldn’t manage to boot up. Got a replacement CPU two days ago, and then the system where as rock solid as ever again and runs very smoothly now. Spent the last day reorganizing the files and cleaning up the mess that occurred during this disaster.
Well I’m back in business again, and will start posting work in progress images starting tomorrow or Monday. Oh well, life has it’s ups and downs. Just gotta go along with it.

I have just been chilling tonight (as well as yesterday). You know, celebrating I have my working environment in order again. Good food, good beer, good company! Ah, life is pretty good after all.

I actually just got back and wanted to do a little checkup on my stuff before calling it a night with the computer. Right now I’m listening to some wonderful lounge music, and enjoying my beloved Gin.

Chill Out Music: Jean Michel Jarre - Geometry of Love