Kevin Eldon, Josie Long and Isabel Fay are on board for Man In A Cat and we’ll be recording next week! For the full article and extent of my fanaticism over Kevin Eldon go THIS WAY.
Cast for Man In a Cat is Revealed!
How Many Circles Does It Take To Work Out Yorkie?
… A lot.
This is just a fragment of the development gone into Yorkie, let alone Man In a Cat. On paper it doesn’t look like all the options were explored, but by God believe me we did! The seed of this whole story came from one picture, that one in the top left of him punching the inside the cat.
From there we had to work out what kind of story this was and how that was going to work best. That got really nauseating. I still think of all the possibilities and the knock on effects. Ian and I came up with so many scenarios, settings, relationships, arcs and loop-da-loops that we had twenty or so spin offs by the end.
After we had finally decided what was best for Yorkie’s future, I had to design him to fit with every aspect of the story perfectly. I don’t normally draw big round eyes, but apparently this is what this film called for. And scale! Don’t get me started! Even the shape of Yorkie’s skull is carefully considered.
This has been in development now for 3 YEARS, and I can finally say that I’m completely happy with it… I think… I do still like the idea that he’s Super Mario at, literally, the arse end of his career. I’ll try get some more bits and bobs of this kind up here, but the ideas phase was was so loose and wordy that it looks more like the random doodled conspiracy theories of Mel Gibson.
Thumbnails, Roughing, Clean up
A quick video to say hello, and to give you a little insight into how I fit Flash into the world of traditional animation.
Rotoscoped Stop Motion Car
Some jerky test footage of the model car I modified, stop motion animated, then rotoscoped. Really I should have used a green screen as when the white bits of the car hit the white background I had to do a lot of guess work. Which kinda defeated the point.
I stole this technique from the way they animated the cars in 101 Dalmatians. They obvously did it a tiny bit better. Check how they did it here:
Animation Passes of Yorkie’s Reveal
First ‘behind the scenes’ from Man In A Cat from the new Man In A Cat dedicated YouTube channel.
It’s quite a complicated scene involving the rotoscoping of Michelle, the animation of the Cat, Yorkie, a Car, and a boom shot in homage to the famous shot in Citizen Kane:
ANOTHER YouTube Feature + Cue for Music Composer
WTFs, LOLs and ROFLs are being banded around like nobody’s business as the trailer for All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) gets featured on YouTube. That makes two features in two weeks! If you can’t see it being featured, that because it’s featured ‘Globally’ and not in Britain… You’ll have to ask YouTube how that one works.
The trailer does feature the opening score to Forest Gump. That was done as a last minute choice as things had got stuck with my sound designer at the time and the music does actually suit quite nicely. So, he next thing will be to get a lovely sound designer onboard and get all that sorted out.
All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) Trailer
Here’s the lastest glimpse of the upcoming film, All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat). Should be a good’un when it’s done.
'All Consuming Love' poster
Here’s the flyer of what Louis’ been working on for the last 9 months. Tagline – ‘Coming out of a cat’s ass near you…’ 
It also doubles as a lovely postcard, so now you can inform both distant friends and estranged relatives about the pros and cons of potential beastiality attacks. Useful AND entertaining!
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