The Animated Pencil

A short way into the storyboarding process, it became clear that the intended 30 second runtime would prove insufficient to accommodate the abundance of character designs and visual gags worked up by the illustration department. There was so much great content we didn’t want to leave out, so we decided to include as much as possible. To cram so much in, we used old-fashioned ‘actionscript’ to seamlessly swap assets on the fly. The final ‘movie’ weighed in with a runtime of nearly four minutes, but judging by the multitude of folders full of unused puppets, it’s fair to say that we might easily have finished up with a ten minute epic!