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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 a native American speaker was essential. Celine and I made a trip to Montreal in early April of 2017 to meet up with the studios in house editor Francois. He was more of a technician than an editor, so he wouldn’t do either. It’s funny […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 man, Depardieu the actor has a light sensitivity in the same way that Gaston the soldier has. And they both love food! From the minute I wrote the part, there was only one actor for me. He immediately said yes to the role, and in […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 or rather what I hadn’t seen, I was going to need more than words; I was going to need modelers and riggers and layout artists. Where were they?<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 place had an air of a library where people are frightened to speak rather than a buzzing hub of media creativity. Our chief had been laying her law down; the team was not allowed to wear jeans, and they were not supposed to talk to […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 old adage that, less is more, we had cut and trimmed, rewritten, and recrafted to the point where the whole thing seemed to move at an exciting pace. Patrick’s visit provided much needed encouragement for us all. He loved the script and didn’t hesitate to […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 give video references to the animators. Also, this was an excellent opportunity to interview him for publicity and social media. Linda had arranged Juice studios in Santa Monica. Our sound recording engineer was Scott, an amiable and helpful guy who made the whole process easy […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 was a real spirit of invincibility. We had an abiding belief in what we were doing. Even on occasions when industry colleagues called to see how it was going and to tell us we were crazy for taking on such a project, we just shrugged […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 House (the state theatre of Georgia, conveniently located in Columbus). These guys were a fantastic bunch of talented people, and some of the scratch voices that we later recorded with them made into the final cut. I was feeling quite emotional as I heard my […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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Making a full length animated feature film is a monumental task. It requires many people and millions of dollars, so as documentary filmmakers with no animation experience, why did we embark on such an enormous mission? From the moment we came across the inspirational story of Stubby back in 2012, we knew we had to bring it to audiences.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":1}