Lucy Lolly is complete!

Brain storming since 2006, planning since last August, and animating pretty much non-stop since March, Lucy Lolly is in the can. Phew. It's my longest running, most complex film to date, although I guess that's not saying much when I haven't made one over 2 and a half minutes until now. It runs at 4 minutes 35 seconds of mostly non-recycled flash animation combined with a bunch of backgrounds and textures.

Just so you know, I probably won't be uploading the film straight to the Internet like I normally do. Have a ganders at the poll on the side there. I'm considering the idea of putting together a DVD to sell for between £5-8. So it doesn't feel like a complete rip off I'll throw in a couple of my previous films too, although I can only use ones that have nothing copyrighted in them, so most likely RabRab, The Howdooyoodoo and a remastered version of The Fujis I plan to make. There will also be extras like Pencil tests, the animatic and concept art. I'd be selling them here via Paypal, most likely. I'll be making a trailer that'll I'll post up online in the next week or so as a taster of what to expect, but for now, here's some more screenshots from the film:

Oh and I almost forgot! The film will be having it's debut screening at the South East Essex Collage campus in "the Pod" (big red cinema thingy) this Friday from 6pm, possibly along with some of my other films. It might also be sent to the Canned Film festival if I can find out wherever or not they will screen it and NOT upload it to their website with Google videos.

Look at me calling my animations "films"! I guess writing "animations" every time was starting to get tiring.

Now on Facebook, and Lucy Lolly Progress

I've finally been dragged onto that other friend networking thingy Facebook thanks to my collage mate Andrew who bribed me with photos from the other night from his Birthday bash. Contained within these photos are some true horrors of me with a blue WKD'ed tongue that seems to never be inside my mouth and the kinds of looks that could get me arrested in the right situation. Still, I defiantly prefer the site to the advert smothered mess that is Myspace, so I'll most likely not be using that account much anymore (not that I did anyway). I haven't quite figured out what all this "so and so has sent you a McDonalds/fragrance/pants etc" thing is all about, though. Is it some kind of sneaky way of getting advertising onto the site? Whatever, at least I can actually navigate Facebook without ugly layouts stretching everywhere with music, videos and other annoying things playing without warning.

As for the Lucy Lolly film progress, which I haven't really been keeping you lot up to date on here for ages now, it's coming along rather smoothly and will be complete in the next few weeks. Mind you, the film will not be debuting online but rather at screenings at the end of this month (so long as I get the film produced in time to send them in): first at Pod thingy at South East Essex Collage, followed by a possible screening at a Southend festival called Canned Film and then there's that show we may be doing in London sometime in June or July, although I'm not sure what's going on with that. The Lucy Lolly mini-website will be online sometime in June, along with a How-Doo-Yoo-Doo page, with any luck. For the meantime, here is a very small peak at what the final film looks like: