AnimatieBlog

A very nice article with some background info about Ticking Away on Animatieblog!

Gazet Van Antwerpen

Our project made it into the Belgian newspaper the "Gazet Van Antwerpen".
(Pdf can be found here.)

26% at Cinecrowd!

We reached 26% of our goal at Cinecrowd!

A big thanks to everyone who donated! To everyone else, please donate if you can and help us finish the film. It would help us tremendously and you get a nice reward in return. Otherwise, please share our crowfunding message.

To celebrate, here's a little teaser with rough animation. The foreground/background is painted by the inimitable Brun Croes.

Composing the score

We've managed to get Reinhard Vanbergen to compose and conduct the score for Ticking Away. Here's the two of us fine-tuning  the composition to get it just right for the film and ready for the musicians, a chamber orchestra with additional percussion, to perform.

After that it was off to Brussels to record the score at studio Dada.

Crowdfunding

For the final stage of our production, my producer has set up a crowdfunding at Cinecrowd. We are trying to scrape together the budget to pay for the final stages and we are looking for backers. We offer very nice rewards in return for a donations! So, if you can, please donate. If not, please spread the word and help us finish this film. We'd be really grateful.

MOOVES

Private preview for my friends from Mooves giving me feedback and advice on dramaurgy and storytelling. 

Fabrique Fantastique

I've been working closely and very pleasantly with the crew at all-round animation and production studio Fabrique Fantastique who are hard at work doing compositing and coloring on Ticking Away.

Here's them looking rather photogenic.

Left to right; Matthew Lu (color artist), Hanne Geeraert (DEA veteran), Michaël Koning (compositing wizard), Quinten van Epperzeel (color artist).


Sweating Away.

Floriaan Den Hoed stretching his neck muscles.

Hanne needs exactly 4 cups of coffee to keep going.

Doing their "Usual Suspects" routine. (Gimme the keys, you @$#%*&!!)

One frame at a time

Screen capture of me sweating away.

And a fragment of storyboard from the same scene.

Screengrabs

My days are filled looking at screens like these:

Roughs

Here's some rough animation of our main character in action, and some cleanups stills of the reverse angle.

Studio

For some context, this is the dungeon where the whole thing was concocted and fabricated.

Welcome

Welcome to the 'work-in-progress' blog of 'Ticking Away'. The short hand drawn animated film by Michael Sewnarain and CintéTé Filmproduktie.

We will be posting sketches, linetests, 'making of"s and a lot more info about how we've created this production. So stay tuned and please come back regularly!