strange frame: Love & Sax

If you are reading this weeks from now, it might not be the top film. Only last week it was number 2. Still impressive for the type of film. When I checked State of Play was 26th.

Not biggest grossing film, but the feature film with the total number of positive critical reviews. Don’t click on the link yet.

It is not some clip on YouTube. We are talking about feature films made within the last year. 

Can you guess? I’ll give you a hint:

It is an eclectic animated music driven feature in a unique style about love in the face of adversity. It is an independent film done with a very low budget by a handful of passionate filmmakers. Its audience is mostly teens and adults. Sound familiar? 

The film is here and it is free to download in high resolution

Notice another eclectic animated film not targeted at kids is in the top 20 as well. Why am I interested in this? Because from the start of this project studio execs have told me that we have a fantastic idea, but no audience. ‘Animated films we mostly for kids and the adults that bring them.’ Honestly,I can’t imagine a huge audience for our film, but a dedicated one…and in the current market of media piracy and changing distribution models, I’d rather have a smaller group of intense fans than a wide release.

Enjoy the film.

Making a movie sounds like all fun and games: I assure you the the drawing part of making the movie is a lot of fun, but raising money? We have been raising money due to an awesome tax incentive provided by the State of Hawaii…but now that we are at the cusp of having our budget, the legislature is meeting this week to totally revamp the incentive which would, in effect, kill our ability to raise money. Argh!!!!

They are battling it out in both the State House and State Senate. We should find out Friday what they have decided and then it might go to a vote on the floor, but until then we are in limbo…the movie is not in limbo though because no matter what…if Shelley and I have to finish it just the two of us, we will!

Welcome to our blog about ’strange frame’. We hope to post updates here on our production and answer questions from people about the story, process, and animation in general.