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It\u2019s finally 2021! We know that 2020 was an unusual and unprecedented year in many ways for everyone. That includes us! As you know, we have had several projects in the works since the release of Sgt. Stubby. Unfortunately, like many in our industry, the on-going Covid-19 crisis has affected what we\u2019re able to create. […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
As we prepared to close the Paris operation down and move to Montreal, we had to decide on an editor for the movie. Celine Kelepikis, who had edited the storyboard animatic, was a great editor, but English was not her first language. Stubby was destined predominantly for the U.S. market, so an editor who was […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
I wrote the part of Gaston with only one actor in mind, the great Gerard Depardieu. Gaston is a character that I had great fun creating. I was able to encapsulate all the things I love into this one character and create someone I would like to have dinner with. For such a big gruff […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In Paris, I was preparing for a battle with our studio partners when I got the call from their head of operations, Julien. “I want to reassure” you, he said, “we will get your movie out on time, it’s always like this, but it comes together in the end.” From what I’d seen in Montreal […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Columbus office was up and running, but I got the impression that all was not well, so I paid an unannounced visit. Titles are necessary for a corporate structure, but in a small organization like ours, they can be a real handicap, stifling actual collaborative team performance. Jordan was quiet and subdued, and the whole […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
By November of 2016, Paris studio was well underway with the storyboard when we got a two-day visit from Patrick Doyle. This was exciting! I had been spending three days a week with the team, and we were fast reaching the point where we needed musical cues. The story was really working and applying the […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
Our first star recording session was with Logan. I flew to LA with my long time cameraman, Alban Roinard, who had worked with me for a decade during my PBS documentary days. Not only did we need to record Logan’s voice, but we also needed to film him acting out the role so we could […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
It’s a strange thing, but at no time during the development of Stubby did I ever doubt that we’d get the movie made. Each time I found myself in a tight spot, I thought of our little hero and his tenacity, and I just forged ahead. Everyone on the team felt the same way. There […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
In July of 2016, our consultant and I arrived in Columbus, Georgia, for a table read on the script which was now in its third iteration. Mike Stokey, my co-writer, also flew in from his home in Las Vegas. My colleague Jordan Beck had assembled a group of budding actors from the local Springer Opera […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>
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