Hello everyone! Welcome to the production blog for the Storm movie. A brief introduction: I’m Tracy King, the movie’s Producer. I’ll be posting various things here from the news, marketing, PR and ‘general interest’ side of the project, and the vastly more exciting ‘art and animation’ side of things will be posted by Dan ‘DC’ Turner and Fraser Davidson. They’ll be uploading character designs, timelapsed videos of artwork being created, concept sketches, inspiration and source material, video clips from the movie, and sometimes just ’stuff they like’, all posted first (and mostly exclusively) to this blog, and maybe even the occasional post from Tim himself.
What is the Storm Movie?
I’m guessing most of you are already aware of Tim Minchin’s 9-minute beat poem, Storm. In case you haven’t heard it or want to again, here’s the audio on YouTube. In late 2008 I approached Tim with the proposal for making Storm into an animated movie after seeing him perform it live at Nine Lessons and Carols in London and being what we Brits like to call ‘gobsmacked’. Tim had already envisaged the poem as an animation, thankfully, so it was a pretty short conversation which ended with “yes”. I think beer might have been involved, but despite that, just six months later we were premièring a 45-second teaser trailer at TAM London thanks to the immense talents and hard work of DC and Fraser. You can read more about them on the ‘about‘ page, please do visit their personal web pages too.
The Storm Movie will be a mix of character animation and kinetic typography. The teaser trailer will be posted on this blog soon so keep an eye out via the RSS feed, the official Twitter feed @storm_movie or Facebook. We’re also still working on building this blog but wanted to get it launched, so expect a few improvements, tweaks and bug fixes as we go along. You’re always welcome to give technical feedback via the comments.
I think Storm is one of the greatest poems, nay, one of the greatest things, ever written, and that’s why I’m so sure that the finished animation will be incredible. The challenge of bringing visuals to something already so perfect is a huge one, but with source material that good, we have the best possible motivation to succeed. I hope you’re as excited as I am about the forthcoming movie, and in the meantime please enjoy this blog.
31/12/2009 at 2:22 am Permalink
Congratulations on the launch! I’m very confident this will turn out to be one hell of a movie
skeptical regards
Chris
31/12/2009 at 2:45 am Permalink
Nice! Can’t wait to read the updates. Been excited about this since I heard about it being shown at TAM.
31/12/2009 at 11:02 am Permalink
Wow this is amazing i can’t wait to see the finished product i’m sure it will be mind blowing! Good luck and all that i’m sure you don’t need it though!
Claire xx
31/12/2009 at 11:12 am Permalink
I’m so excited!
I’m sure you will all do it justice. It sounds fantastic
Michelle.
x
31/12/2009 at 1:34 pm Permalink
Excellent news! I am certain that Tim stole my own thoughts for Storm, and then put them all down in a much clearer & concise form, than I could ever dream of. Clever bugger…
Looking forward to viewing your work.
31/12/2009 at 3:39 pm Permalink
@Guy, that was exactly my thought when I first saw it. “But…that’s what *I* think about stuff!”. Very excited that there are animators and artists who also think that way about stuff. Although the audio has already had a huge audience, the animation will hopefully help it reach and even wider and more diverse audience.
01/01/2010 at 7:10 am Permalink
I think this will be HUGE. Its an awesome piece, and the movie will be fab!!! Cant wait to see it!
02/01/2010 at 10:37 pm Permalink
Thank you all so much for giving us this fascinating glimpse into the processes and development of this exciting project. Love all the bits we’ve seen so far and really looking forward to seeing it all being put together…
03/01/2010 at 5:48 am Permalink
Will this be a full length movie, or just a short film? Either way, it looks great.
03/01/2010 at 2:07 pm Permalink
@William Brinkman – the poem is 9 minutes long, so the animation will be 9 minutes long. Just the right length for YouTube
08/01/2010 at 6:02 pm Permalink
I salute you.
08/01/2010 at 9:48 pm Permalink
Cant wait for this…its going to be immense ..
good luck ..not that you’ll need it with tim’s talent but i will surely enjoy seeing it.:D
14/01/2010 at 4:34 am Permalink
I wish not concur on it. I assume warm-hearted post. Expressly the appellation attracted me to read the sound story.
15/01/2010 at 3:52 am Permalink
OMG I cannot wait for this. Tim’s command of the English language is actually beyond words
Huge fan, look forward to the animation. All the best
04/05/2010 at 3:17 pm Permalink
Firstly, many thanks to all of you for the lovely comments posted across the internet, not to mention those who have posted and featured us and the trailer on your own blogs. It makes all the long cold hours spent in the office over the last few months worth the hassle! dog shampoo