Just a Little Update

Crazy year huh? I have been meaning to update this blog for a while and I have many many apologies about that. Most times when working in animation, progress is so slow that it feels like any kind of update would be insiginifigant.

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Props

Right here we have a (incomplete) catalogue of all the props we have created or sourced for the background of this film. We will add more as they are created, so feel free to check back once in a while.

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Set 1: The Cabin

This is the first of the two large sets we will be using for this film. There will essentially be two scenes shot here, but taking place in different times, so most of the running time of the film takes place here.

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Tin Woodman Puppet

Contributed by Mattzilla Duron

When I had first starting some drawings for the Tin Man back in 2012 I wanted him to look like a mix of the John R Niel drawings and Wenslow artwork. Return to Oz had a really excellent representation of the tin man, I didn’t want to duplicate it but did use elements from it for our movie.

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6 Kickstarter Tips

Number 6 will really blow your mind! As someone who has been involved with multiple crowdfunding campaigns at various levels of involvement, I felt pretty confident that I could plan and design a campaign that would be successful.

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Conception

The Tin Woods as a script began over six years ago. My buddy Mattzilla, who works in stop motion, was always bugging me to help him make a real film. Mostly he wanted to do a Godzilla film. He wanted to sculpt and mold a recreation of the original Godzilla and animate a film around it.

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