Now WHAT!?

You can watch ELIMINATE DR SANDWICH at http://207.36.233.66/b_files/DrSandwich.mpg courtesy of www.pugamation.com

This site is made by Belinda Bohlken, who helped out with the musical score for the film

In hindsight my very original pitch and script is almost EXACTLY what I ended up with as a final version. Anyone wanting to point out how ironic that is should go to www.getstuffed.org/shutthehellup.

I LIKE my film. After the hamburgers stopped chasing me in my sleep, demanding that I change their dialogue, and I hadn't watched my film for a month or so I sat and watched it again and again and again and I'm really happy to watch it still. I vaguely remember saying to Matt Riley, "Yes Matt, I'm still updating my blog...' but more importantly, that I wished I could erase my memory of ever having made that film so I could look at it with totally unbiased eyes and a fresh point of view.

I'd have a few pointers that I'd write down and email to myself...

• The pacing of the movie DIES almost instantly when DS arrives home and is suprised by his party guests. There is too much dialogue here with not enough action and the whole piece just slows down.

• There's only so many hours you can work in a row, for so many days, before you realise you've aged about 10 years overnight and you look like a garbageman

• If the script had been written more simply right from the beginning, more detail could have been applied to the polished linework I imagined it having when I first thought of the idea.

• You've erased your memory, it's in that file on your hard drive labelled PLEASE DONT TRASH

Then when I had my memory back, I'd make a few notes like

• I think the visual style I designed, although not as polished as I'd have liked, worked well.

• Giant Robots are cool.

• 6 minutes of hand drawn, full colour animation including lipsynched dialogue, soundtrack and hundreds of foley effects is REALLY REALLY HARD. I'm proud of my film and I'm looking forward to the next one. I've learned as much about what NOT to do when making an animated film as I have about what you SHOULD do.

Next time I'll be more logical in my approach to what I can achieve in the time I'm given. I won't be foolish and try to make a movie in less than 20 hours and then enter it in a film festival. That would just be CRAZY!