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hello.
I need to put an introduction here, about me, my ambitions, my future. But... sitting here writing this, my main aim if I'm honest, is fast becoming just to fill this white space. You see my passion has always been scribbling not writing.
But I have been advised that giving some background will give people an idea of where the film has come from and also why it has come about, and I have to agree. Hopefully this introduction may answer some of those questions.
So.....
For 26 years I have scribbled on things, Alot of the time I then ate the paper, I'm sure some psychologist would have a theory on that, but I just liked it, thankfully I no longer get the urge.
Anyway, scribbling, making marks, creating characters, drawing, I loved it, I still love it. Ever since I was a kid its what I did, its was all I did. I drew and my brother smiled and ran everywhere (he had unusually longs legs for a boy that age)
Drawing things got me through School, then College- a diversionary tactic to continue doing what I loved doing for a few years until I had to earn some money. However even then becoming a designer was as close as I could get to a real job, which by the way still allowed me to scribble.
Work now introduced me to the computer, which gave me a neater (but less tasty!) outlet for my drawings, and so I spent the next few years coming up with characters, ideas, anything and learning to store my imagination on a hard drive in tidy megabyte lumps.
In 2002 I was invited onto an online animation course by John Grace. I joined the course late, but I still had enough time to complete the most important part, The character design module/competition. The short version of a long story and lots of hard work is, I WON.... No great prize or ceremony. Infact any buzz created by the competition soon faded, Well for everyone else it did, but I was still buzzing...
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John Grace and his competition had given my scribbles a purpose or at very least justification and me the self belief to see where I could take some of my ideas or more importantly where they could take me.
John very sadly passed away soon after the competition ended, but not before he became my advisor, my mentor and channelled my ideas. I now had to go and find my own way, ask questions, send emails, generally pester but most importantly work hard.
I am rambling now but I think I've got to the point I wanted to be.
You see I present this film now as something I made, off my own back. I had to. it's a product of my dreams.
I'm happy I made it, and for all the things I would change, I'm proud of it. It took ages. I started by not knowing how or where I was going to start, let alone finish!
Someone much wiser than me once told me the hardest thing to do would be to finish a short film. Well it is, its hard to spend hours and hours of your spare time locked away on your own, its hard going back to the start again when your half way through because you've learned new techniques, or refined old ones. But I finished it.
Just scribbling isn't enough any more. I have to create things and see through my ideas, keep plugging away, keep working hard. Where it goes from here, I do not know. However, I do know I want to be a bit more than a scribbling boy with a appetite for paper sitting in a back bedroom with a vivid imagination.
You'll notice more than a passing resemblance between my story and the message in the film. Well, I make no apologies for that.
I hope you enjoy the film.
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