The production of this film is one of the weirdest experiences of my professional animation filmmaking life. Snow Angel started as a style demo back in 2000 or so. Always loved the work that Dave Fedan did and for some odd reason, I always felt there was a story there in this little demo piece about a snowball fight. Dave and I tossed around a couple of ideas over the years, and we both acknowledged to one another that it would be great to do an expanded version of the story. The only problem with that is that we didn't have a story.
Fast forward to a year ago, where I decided to sit down and do an animatic illustrating an idea I had had years ago about the film and see what I could save from the original idea as well make it better, if there is such a thing. Over the past year, I have revisited the idea and the animatic several times and I did something I had never done before, I sent the animatic out to a bunch of close associates and asked them for feedback.
Typically, I have worked in a bubble or at least I remembered I did. Actually, sending the animatic to a group of trusted artists, friends, etc. filled a void that I had forgotten was there. The void of a studio. I miss Knock Knock Cartoons studio and all the people that worked there. So it became obvious that I was just trying to recreate that feeling albeit remotely to get people excited about a direction and then hear where they felt it could be improved.
There is no bubble, that popped. There is however the gift of ideas, to improve upon my creative. We will see where that goes and if I am the right person to tell this new story.
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