Animation : Evaluating a book for an animated short film by Courtland Shakespeare

Courtland Shakespeare

Evaluating a book for an animated short film

An extremely capable, top secret, experimental meteorological robot gets stranded on a golf course by mistake and has to play a round until he is either caught by authorities or rescued or by his creator. A PDF version is available for evaluation from my web site http://www.courtlandshakespeare.com/the-perfect-round/TPR.pdf

John F Tupper

Nice Illustration. It has an Anime feel. I wish you luck. One note on reading a bit of it; While in a book you can rely on lots of expository explanations, you can't do that in animation. You need to show what your explaining, not explain it. The rule is, "Show don't tell." I didn't read the whole thing, but it did lead me wondering what the main character arc is. All I got through were lots of "holes in one." - Again, best of luck. - JT

Courtland Shakespeare

Thank you for the comment. We're working on a shooting script that is quite different from the book text. The book was more about the artwork. But we're also going for a different kind of story with an exotic hi-tech atmosphere - with a hook spin à la "Lost Thing" - but thank you!

Delor Sarmiento Lauchang

One advice from the big boys I got before, if they intend to inject some editing or changes, don't ever attempt to own your story, those in the business kinda knows what the moviegoers want.

Courtland Shakespeare

Thank you for the advice - I believe you even if I don't have complete faith in them . . .

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