Max looks happy, his multiplane is coming on a treat. Hope fully we'll have the glass planes fitted in a week or so and then the games can begin. The guys at Clapham rd have invented a system whereby the glass planes will be mounted on runners, so glass planes can be pulled in and out of the rig. This will be enormously useful for clean-up, especially during paint on glass sequences. The multiplane will also make using several colours during paint on glass sequences much easier to do. Simply put, whenever an object contains more than one colour, colours will be separated out onto different glass planes. No more muddy colours or pain in the arse clean ups! Hurrah!
If you've seen my work in progress on the 'capitalism off guard' sequence, you'll see that at the moment it ends with a bunch of characters hurdling coins. This bit of the action will co-incide with the VO saying, "How to sell to a generation impervious to consuerism". The VO will then continue, "The answer was to tap into the movement and sell to the individual in everybody." So, what happens next? Well, firstly our hurdling heros will each be picked up by a hand which will pull off their cork heads. I had a think about how to illustrate these hands and came up with the idea of hands made of burnt matches. The burnt matches represent marketing and advertising; spent forces devoid of any new ideas. These matches pull the heads off the vibrant youth and nick their innards, appropriating new ideas and vitality for their own ends...I'll shut up now.
