poetry rough

It's been a busy week. We've been working hard to finish animation on the Carry a Poem trailer so that we could get the rough over to City of Literature. We're now waiting nervously for their comments so that we can either start rendering or get going on the amendments!

I still don't want to give too much away, but I can tell you that one of the big challenges has been wrangling a poetry cloud - a swarm of paint splashes and letters inspired by Emily Isles' gorgeous illustrations for the Carry a Poem campaign.

Here's a quick glimpse of a snippet of poetry caused by the cloud. The extract is from "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats.

a fetching concept

We've been working on a short film outline with Edinburgh-based writer Andrew J. Wilson. Andrew did a brilliant spot of guest writing for The Lost Book and as we all enjoyed working together we decided to continue the collaboration.

The short's working title is "The Fetch"; it's a dark fairy-tale for adults. Today Adam finished drawing concept artwork to go with Andrew's outline. Here's a sneaky preview of the first sketch, showing the opening scene. You won't get to see any more unless we get funding to make the film...

Relative dimensions in space

We've finished building the 3D model of our set for the Carry a Poem animation. My favourite element of the Edinburgh-ish street is the police box.



Edinburgh's police boxes aren't quite TARDISes, but they have a quirky charm of their own. They were designed in the 1930s by city architect E. J. MacRae, are built out of cast iron, and apparently each weighs about 2 tonnes. Take look at the brilliant Flickr set Great Edinburgh TARDIS quest to see all of the remaining police boxes.