It was fantastic, of course (so go and see it). What’s really interesting about this film is how much of a clash there is between the tone of the original author (Roald Dahl) and the adapter (Wes Anderson), and yet the adaptation still works beautifully.
Dahl’s work always has a particularly ironic but unrepentant zing to [...]

Check out my guest post on Dead Things on Sticks. Mostly about indie Internet TV, somewhat about the Canadian TV regulatory system.

You know that idea about shooting entirely on location? Yeah, so we’re doing the opposite . . . but I have some ideas for how to work out the backgrounds that should mean I don’t need animators. On December 5th we’ll be making some tests to try out these ideas. I’m confident one of them [...]

I recently gave a critique to someone about their story – which was a relatively funny piece – and then I got an email reply to my comments that was loads lighter than the story they’d written. Why was this? Because in the email they were relaxed. They were just trying to get back to [...]

The server for my website totally crashed two days ago. Fortunately there were multiple full backups, plus the database was recoverable. I don’t think this caused any RSS glitches, but if it did I apologize for that. The website is now on a new server, and should be running faster than ever. It is also [...]

I bribed Stephanos to help make a Halloween card for you. Enjoy!

I have made changes to the script of Stuffed!, changes that will let me shoot on location instead of in front of a green screen. This should mean I won’t need animators. It should also make the lives of everyone on my crew much easier.
To do this I need to find two locations: an alleyway, [...]

Look inside this post for images of some of the finished puppets of Stuffed!

Stuffed! has been going forward, but no plan survives reality. And of course the busier a project is the less easy it is to find time to document it.
I have a completed draft of the pilot episode. It is, however, a 30 minutes episode – so I’ve decided to write a much shorter piece, or [...]

These last few weeks I’ve been sitting down for two hours every night to write, Sundays through Thursdays. So far twice I’ve stepped away from my TV script – once to write a treatment for a fairly long story, and then last night.
I hadn’t written a short story in two years. I wrote one last [...]