Cool news of this week? Both Soren Laulainen and Phil Rogan have submitted trailer concepts, and they’re both knock-it-out-of-the-park rad! I admit, I’d always kind of wanted to be the one to come up with a trailer concept (and still might!), but I’ve been warned numerous times that directors shouldn’t make their own trailers, and I think these show why! The recontextualizing and mixing-up of the delivery of the narrative elements and shots is an incredible effort to explain the film in a brief…

Things are happening! I wish more were happening!



We’re working hard to see if we can get everything ready to meet the January Seattle International Film Festival deadline, and it’s an honest unknown at this point! My personal goal is to go through and at the very least make sure all the new storyboards are gone, replaced by final animation, so that when the SIFF folks get it, it’ll effectively look like the finished product. We also have one more shot we have to get if we’re going…

I’m working hard to get the last bit of visuals done by January, with a minimum of all the storyboards replaced by Christmas. So far, progress goes well!

Coordinating final pick-up shoots and the like is more tricky–folks schedules aren’t exactly aligning, and it’s been kinda burden for a while now; it’ll be nice when that last shot is in the can.

But right now I’m looking forward to the holidays and the new year. I’m really thankful for the work everyone has done on Project…

     Is everyone ready for Christmas? I am! Mostly.

     Particularly because Phil McCoy just brought me “Creativity and Energy…

So the time has come! Phil has filled out all the information, and he’s sending in the film as a submission to SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival)! They’ll accept it for review even with incomplete sound design, so we’re going to give it a shot. Apparently the paperwork was pretty monumental- but! All done now!

More awesome news? A side effect of the submission is that we can finally post the film on IMDB! (they have a thing where you have to be a…