Thanks You to Another Crew Member

Another crew member has finished up on Miss Remarkable and her Career, Donal has put in some sterling work and some late hours I might add and soon his work will be viewable in film form at your nearest festival.

If you would like to check out some of Donal's other work, head on over to the aptly named donalmanganartstuff.blogspot.com. 

Thanks again Donal.

The Swedish Contingent and more...

All the animation is going great on Miss Remarkable but we have had a couple of new people join the team, and one person finishing up. Thanks again to Candice for all her work. 

So welcome to Markus (pictured here), working with David - the animation director, also pictured above - in Sweden and to Eadaoin our Production Assistant working with Michael.

Miss Remarkable Tracking

So as we come to the end of Miss Remarkable Animation we have resorted to the best tracking system there is, a bunch of post-it notes. Not that we have abandoned our excel files and wiki's but it is always good to see a the post-it notes move through the boards. 

Although for anyone considering the use of such a system I would suggest a bit of blue-tac to secure them to the boards, there is nothing worse than coming into work the one morning to find a few scenes on the floor.

Swedish Trips

Hej Hej, as they say is Sweden, I have been visiting swedish airports a fair amount recently, in finishing up of Miss Remarkable and her Career, so to pass the time in passport control I have been sketching my fellow passengers.

Enjoy.

Stockholm Visit

So at the moment I am visiting the co-producers, with our Irish Executive Producer Barry, for to plan the final push to the finish of Miss Remarkable and her Career, but that doesn't mean that you cant go ice skating at night in the city. 

Unfortunately this picture was taken with my phone but I will post some better quality images when I return to Ireland.

The Irish Film Board Launch

We had a chance recently to socialise with the industry of Galway, at the recent Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board launch of their films catalogue, which we were duly included in with "Miss Remarkable and her Career".  And Thanks to Simon Perry of the IFB for his kind words about the project.

So picture to the left is, (from right to left) Tomm Moore of The Cartoon Saloon, Director of the upcoming feature "Brendan and the Secret of Kells", in the middle is Barry O'Donaghue of Barley Films and director of the feature "Caribou" and then there is myself.

And below are two members of A Man & Ink, Mr Michael Lennon and Donal Mangan, an animator on Miss Remarkable. With behind the controls of the camera, Candice, another animator on Miss Remarkable. A great night had by all.

Miss Remarkable Continues

So we are continuing on with the animation of Miss Remarkable and everything is going great. We have a few finished scenes so I wanted to post some stills to illustrate the style. The film is completely black and white and the scenes are based on Joanna's graphic novel of the same name. And all this is with the participation of Bórd Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board. Our thanks to Emma and Andrew.  :)

It's Official

We have finally gone officially into production our new co-production Miss Remarkable and her Career, although we did start animation a month ago we wanted to wait to announce it until we had put pen to paper on our Bord Scannan na hEireann contracts, which we did last week. And thanks again to Orla for all her help.

Miss R is a co-production between ourselves, Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB (Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark) and is based on the graphic novel of the same name from Joanna Rubin Dranger, who is also directing it. We are producing 75% of the animation here under the guidance of David Rylander of Rylander Animation based in Sweden. So there is alot of skype and emailing going on. But we are also responsible for the english voice record which we are planning for early December.

A little history on our involvement is that myself and Lorrain met Lisbet, Joanna and David at Cartoon Forum last year and have been putting the co-production together for the last 6 months, and thanks to Barry O Donaghue of Barley Films for his immense help there.

I shall post some images and production photos soon.