Character Design

Just getting in the first approved character design from June, who is doing a fabulous job. The final 'look' will be looser, more like an ink drawing, but these drawings are helping nail the underlying structural reference the animators will need.

Hasan and Andrew

When I was in Ramallah, Khaled gave me this clip of Hasan, caught on his friend Andrew's cellphone. Its the only footage I have of him, but so much of his personality is on show even in these few seconds...

Now that the task of animating Hasan is nearly here, such clips are invaluable.

Preproduction

Well, we're finally up and running, although making as many revisions as decisions for the moment. In January Ray Forkan, fresh off 'Brendan, Secret of Kells' took up the helm on layout and last week June Wright took on the turnarounds for character design. Meanwhile, I am trying to piece together the new narrative, based on Ray's concept design, my experiences travelling to New York and Palestine and the myriad of photographic and video research that resulted from those trips. We need to kick off production on February 11th, so lots of hard decisions to be made in the coming week...