Ok, after a very long break I have decided to start Last Chance Part 2 “It’s about…”, haven’t decided if it will be about passion or love – more on that later.
The storyboards are all done, animatic is being worked on at the moment – so very exciting.
This time the timeline will be more compressed… aiming to get the whole 7 minutes done before the end of the year.

And keeping inline with our old style – here’s an inspirational picture for one shot.

Last chance will be screened at 4:20 in Hollywood at the Spielberg Theater on Friday December 3rd.
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More festival news. Last Chance just got accepted to the Artivist Film Festival.

More good news to end the summer. Happy times to everyone!

More festival news. Summer is drawing to a close. Time to move on.
Last Chance just got accepted to the Strasbourg International Film Festival. Good stuff.

Now we will go outside and enjoy the sun some more Most certainly have a celebratory brewskie, or two.

Good Morning,
Just received word that Last Chance will be screened at the 2010 New Orleans film fest. Good news! That’s about all that’s happened this week.

Here’s something the good Mario Celestino sent us:

Super imagery and poignant storytelling. The piano creates an ominous tone poem for the oft-distressing surreal animated portraits of life as we knew it and how our planet’s delicate ecosystem, clearly on a collision course with mankind since the machine-age, seems to be pleading with us, heralding a sad reality of the future while simultaneously challenging corrective measures to allow the earth a “last chance” for another tomorrow. We already sense the truth yet third-eye-blindness is all too convenient. One wonders whether the earth must become silent before man can hear its cry. Obviously, that would be too late. Last chance, for sure!

Getting to do alot of translating today. Here’s a review from kabytes.com. Gracias.

Una maravilla del digital painting, llena de contrastes de color y espacios imaginarios. Llama a la reflexión como si la propia tierra estuviera pidiendo auxilio.

A marvel of a a digital painting. An flood of imagination and contrasting colors. A fiery reflection of a world requesting aid.

Here’s a really nice review from Guru63.com. In true self centered artist fashion, negative reviews will be discarded

Last Chance un bellissimo video per salvare il pianeta:
Una meraviglia questo video, un filmato pieno di colori e contrasti a volte forti a volte soavi, dove la terra sembra chiedere aiuto e soccorso..

My foreign is a little rusty but loosely translated to:
Last Chance, a beautiful film about saving the planet.
A wonderful film, full of color and alternating gentle and strong contrasts. The earth seems to repeatedly ask for aid.

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Last Chance started out as three pencil drawings. The Comet, the Trees leaving and the Dancing Lady. They were the key scenes and became the first storyboard panels.

The animation ended up with 27 paintings in the end. At least that’s what they’re supposed to be, moving paintings. The idea was to make something “impressionistic”, where the first glimpse of the painting contains all the information.

The story is intentionally on the darker side. We start of with a brief heavenly glimpse, Shipibo patterns of the Amazon, and then it’s all downhill from there. Only towards the end when all options have been exhausted are we allowed to fly again.

Anyway, here are the original three drawings that started the whole thing.