This movie was mainly done as a test to see what types of effects we could achieve and to get a feel for what it would be like working on a project together but being a few hundred miles apart.

The 'main shoot' took literally 10 minutes or less and the scenes were scribbled on one side of A4 paper. It happened to be filmed on the morning of my youngest daughter's birthday which is why there is a bouncy castle in my garden.

We benefited greatly from the skills we had to develop on this movie. 3D modelling, rotoscoping, object removal, motion tracking, particle effects, weight and mass physics and sound dubbing all got a look in.

When we scripted the idea, we had no idea if we could do it, however we knew we wanted to give it a go. More ideas came about while we were in post production and we pushed our limits further.

As the film was worked on intermittantly between other projects, it actually took 18 months to complete from start to finish but the benefit was we had used that time to test ideas and improve the new skills we had learnt.

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