Back in 2005 Shane intruduced us all to his stitched and zippered ragdolls in his short film entitled “9”. Tim Burton soon took interested and has assisted Shane in turning the short into a feature film. Starz, based in Toronto, was the 3D animation studio responsible for the work. Not too long ago the film trailer was released to to the public.
I worked with Shane on one of the initial film tests. The guy is still an animator at heart and he knows what he likes. It’s rare to have a director critizise the technical aspects of your work (in my case, the character rigs). I haven’t heard more than bits and pieces of how the final production went, but I am pretty excited to see how everything turned out.
Biggest kicker… the film is being released on my birthday. It also means I can finally put the work I did on my demo reel. That’ll be a nice birthday present to myself.
I recommend watching the original short:
And then, here’s the full film trailer (or the HD trailer on the official site):
2009/02/20 at 11:00 pm
Just saw this at the Arclight Hollywood before Coraline. Awesome work chief.
2009/02/21 at 1:46 am
Awe man, wish I could take credit for anything you saw… but it wasn’t me. : I worked on a bid for it, that we didn’t get… but we’re all pretty happy with the work we did. If the film comes out, I’ll have to see if it’s cool for me to share the clip we made. Shane was a fun guy to work for.
2009/03/11 at 10:34 am
OMGWTFBBBQ!!!11!!!one!!
*regaining speech*
Wow, it’s so cool to see a project like this go so far — even if it does take a couple of years! How inspiring!
I’m sorry that your stuff didn’t get featured…but yeah, like you said, at least maybe then you can use the stuff on your reel *shakes fist at the whole concept*. Sigh…artists and their rights to their own work…