Topic: Blipspace
Hey guys. For the first time in a while I'm making plans to work on some animation for my own amusement so I thought I'd give one of these production threads a go. I'll try to keep it updated as I go along so you can watch all the enthusiasm steadily drain away.
So the deal is, I'm working with Peter "Exo Suit" Reid on a series of CG films starring one of his other iconic creations - the humble blip.
I can't remember exactly when Pete invented the blip but they've been around for a good long while. They're kind of like the minions of his space universe - a cheap, expendable workforce used by the classic space guys for maintenance, mining, salvage - pretty much any grunt work that the space guys themselves can't be bothered doing.
Pete's been building a lot of blip-based stuff lately and we got to talking about how best to showcase it. He didn't want the hassle of doing another book like his Lego Space one so we decided that I'd go through the hassle of making films about them instead.
Right now we have three stories worked out, each visiting a different deep space outpost where blips have a presence. Production begins on the first one this weekend. It's a Christmas story so there's a built-in deadline of December 24th. That gives me four months, which is cutting it kind of fine for a CG production. Pete and another AFOL friend, Jeremy Williams, will be building models and I'll be writing and animating.
Fun challenges along the way will include dealing with the fact that blips don't talk and have no faces.
So to cut a long story short...
Coming soon(ish): A Visit From The St Nicholas
