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Accord Cine Fest – Double Award!
I'm extremely proud to announce that the pilot for Phungus & Mowld has won TWO awards at the Accord Cine Fest June 2021: BEST SCI-FI SHORT as well as BEST PILOT EPISODE. I'm really stoked that my little escapade into animation actually wins these kind of awards...
Episode 2 Status Update (June)
The pros and cons of being a one-man operation is something I'm becoming aware of more and more. The flexibility of doing whatever you want and changing your mind on a moments notice is great, but I tend to run into walls quickly. Walls being limitation of my...
RED Movie Awards – Winner!
I'm extremely proud to announce that the pilot for Phungus & Mowld has won BEST SCI-FI at the RED Movie Awards, May 2021. This award is different for me, because it's not a “best animation” award in a non-animation focused festival (which is easier to get I...
Episode 2 Status Update (May)
The plan was: with all production assets ready, do some minor rigging and then animate all the scenes swiftly (about 1 scene/day). The plan was wrong. There were a few things in the rigs of the main characters that I wanted to fix. You know small things, that...
Episode 2 Status Update (April)
Although I took a holiday of about two weeks, I didn't get remotely as much done as I hoped. However, I have to say as much as I loathe creating background art (because I often get the angle/viewer's height of the perspective not quite right and have to redo the...
In the Leantime…
After trying out 3,678 or so project management solutions (and they all sucked in different ways) I finally found something that works for me. I'm using it to produce future episodes of Phungus & Mowld. Note: I have stopped using Leantime, because...
Episode 2 Status Update (March)
Finally the script for episode 2 is in the can! Completely rewritten 4 (four) times, the story is now simple, compact and moves forward in a direct continuation of episode 1. On top of that, I've already recorded the narration for episode 2, and most of my concept...
Episode 2 Status Update (Feb ’21)
I tried to get feedback from my family about the story, but somehow I wasn’t able to give them an outline in a concise manner. Obviously episode 2 just go so convoluted, I had a hard time to understand it myself, let alone explain it to others. In an feeble attempt...
Episode 2 Status Update (Jan ’21)
I've just published the 2nd vlog entry on how I'm producing this series. Number one was about my motivations, the second one is talking about how I write my scripts, what structure I'm following, and script writing software. Now I want to focus on getting the...