THURISTAR

Now and then we will release some “making of” material, nothing much but enough to get a glimpse behind the shells. This one is an example of how the characters are posed, from which the animation starts.

- A interview by Floyd Bishop at channel Frederator, click here

- Also the people from 3Dcreativemagazine did a nice article on Plankton Invasion, click here Or you can download the article on the Plankton Invasion website.

- To be amusing for everyone is of course not an easy task and everyone is entitled to his opinion. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, eh To read what critic, Peter Richardson thinks about plankton, Click here

Good news for me !!

Our crafty handyman Dirk is building The Tinkertree Studios as we speak. Up until now the Tinkertree offices consisted of a small room without windows, except then for the XP on my computer, on the same floor as Grid-VFX. Within four weeks this will be history. I’ll be able to take in panoramic views of the garden, the railtracks of Ghent-Brugge, the odd blue sky (it is Belgium after al)…We’ll be moving to the ground level of the Grid-VFX building in no less than 4 weeks time.

However, I do have some good news for you guys.

Besides my eagerness to move to my new offices, I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel -so to speak- of a brand new PlanktonInvasion episode called “15 degrees”. To be honest , I planned this to be a 30 sec. joke to tie you guys over during the wait for the first real full length episode “The Security Breach”. This 30 sec joke however, showed a bit more potential then I first expected. Friends and colleagues reacted very enthusiastic just on the basis of the rough outline of the story. We decided to move the deadline of “The Security Breach” and chose to concentrate on “15degrees” instead. And that’s how 30 seconds quickly became almost 3 minutes and it definitely looks great, even if I say so myself.