Completion and new news

We're aware that it has been a long time since our last post, wow April in fact, but as with everything in life things never turn out how you plan. The Collector is a project that has not taken president over paid work unfortunately as it was a University project that needed completion. Since then a lot has happened and we now look forward to it hopefully being completed by the end of January 2011. This is a rough deadline as with this project it has been abundantly clear that obstacles always get in the way. We are looking forward to having two talented people by the names of Kath Kelleher and Jeb Hawkins who will be finishing off the audio for the short, and the final effects are waiting to be picked up. Once the edit has been finished Kath and Jeb can work their magic and it will all be finished.

In other news, The Collector is now going to have a second instalment produced in 2011. The story has already been outlined and a crew of talented animators and model makers are biting at the bit to get it moving forward after seeing the unfinished version of the first short. The new short will see Thomas Williams once again pitting his wits against a demonic adversary but in a way that you will not have thought possible. We aim to explore the character of Thomas more and give you an insight into the county of Swynshire that he lives in, and we'll keep you posted as to when deadlines have been set as well as the progress of the production.
As The Collector is a privately funded sort film we will be looking for donations to help us produce the second short. The second short, let’s call it ‘Harping Around’ for now, will not be going to festivals afterwards but will be hosted on the website for all to see once it is completed. We will update the site with the ability for you to donate to Harping Around if you so wish to and we hope to have more frequent updates as we go into the New Year so keep checking back for more information, or RSS this blog.

For now that’s it. Hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Delayed completion date

The original completion date had been set to the end of March 2010, then after this it had been set to April 18th 2010. Though we are hoping that we can still hit this target date there have been technical difficulties that may result in it being put back a couple of weeks. this has been unavoidable and we are working as hard as we can to get the film completed.

Thanks for your patience!

John Lynton
(Director/Producer)

State of the film

The film is coming towards the end now. The last bits of compositing are being done and then all thats left is the cleaning up of the sound and a few minor CG effects to be added. If you've been following the progress of the collector on other blogs you may be wondering why there is another one up and running. It's simple... There is now the new website "thecollector-animatedshort.com" which is now up and running. Though the old posts on the production blog are still up and running we though it best to seperate the two from this point forward. In a nutshell if there is any news about the film this is the blog to come to first.