Another elephant, but a bit lighter.

Okay, I think, perhaps the last render was a bit too dark for most folk so I have changed the light settings and now you can see the elephant.

Yesterday, were began to have a read through of 'Monty's Quest' and to have some publicity photographs done for a feature spread in the Newry Democrat.

Today we had a day long seminar that started off with Yanky Fachler. A really good speaker talking about 'Chutzpah. You can find out more about him at: http://www.yankyfachler.com/

I managed to have a good conversation with him, discussing my novels and films. He was kind enough to give me a copy of his book 'Chutzpah' and I have spent this evening reading through some of its pages. So good stories about how various people have done crazy things to get noticed and helped launch their careers. It reminded me of a story about Kenny Everitt who before becoming well-known, used to ensure that his name was called over the intercom just as the managing director came out of the lift. Kenny would then run over to take a phoney call. After a period of time the managing director wondered who this Kenny Everitt was and asked to meet him. This launched Kenny's career.

Yanky Fachler encourages everyone to use their Chutzpah to help get things moving in what ever aspect of their lives they hope to move forward or achieve.

Second Elephant test.

Another test with secondary animation and an eye blink or two. I set the light so that it was more overhead to give more contrast as you might expect in Kenya. But I think the image now looks too dark, so I'll rework the piece again.

Screen Testing Elephants for 'Monty's Quest'

While the live-action part of the film is being set-up, I started to look at how we might be able to do some of the 3D work using Carrara Pro and Blender 3D. The above six second clip uses an elephant model from Daz 3D and animated in Carrara Pro 7. There is still much to do but at least you can see the process has begun.

We will be having the first script read through on Thursday.

Four weeks next Wednesday

Things are finally slowing down at the college, but I have managed to talk to quite a few people about the film project and the enthusiasm is growing. We have a co-producer on bought. Eimear Burke has just finished her degree in Film & Video Production and is going to spend the summer helping me produce 'Monty's Quest'. We are planning to have the first read through next Thursday. Meanwhile, Eimear is preparing a budget and I will begin to storyboard over the weekend.

Though we are not going to have a budget we will still need to get some kind of sponsorship for the Employer's Liability Insurance, unless we can come under the banned of another company for the duration of the shoot.

Effectively, we could be looking for 12 sponsors who could donate £100 to the film project. If anyone is interested contact me on http://www.kingsnorthfilms.com

I'll up date you on our progress.