Song of the Sea Teaser

Mixing

Here's Marie our sound mixer working in reel 1 last week. 

Just one more week of sound design and mixing next week to go...

French , Geailge and Danish dubs are underway....

Big moment

All scenes approved on Hobsoft.

From Ans to Cannes

Such a nice surprise to be here in Cannes this year thanks to Salma Hayek inviting me down to help promote our section of her project "The Prophet" with the other directors and Roger Allers the overall director.

Westend films are working on international sales for Song of the Sea - heres the poster in their office and here are some snaps of their brochure -

Last day of comp

Benoit and damien addong some final finishing touches

Serge is ready for a shave and a holiday.

Adrien happy to be wrapping up the visual side of production after so many years.

Hard to believe the compositing is finally finished and Im on my way now to Cannes to present the chapter of The Prophet that Ross Stewart and I directed together last year. 

Farewell Digital Graphics studio!

The dg team step into the light

more sound recording

Here are some photos of Alex and Julien recording more sounds for Reel 2.
Such a  romantic a job compared to most of the film making process which is basically
sitting in a room with computers all day.

Alex went to Brittany to record and even found an old car like Grannys.

I heard Felix's first pass on Reel 1 on Monday, its really sounding great and its amazing to hear Cu barking like a really big English sheepdog instead of the library temp efx we got used to all thru production.
It really gives that a character presence in the movie that he didnt have before this step.

Foley

As sound design continues our Foley artist Julien has send some photos from his studio in Angouleme , France.

I cant wait to hear what he has come up with in Paris next week.

We are reaching the last phases of compositing on the last two reels in Liege and we had a big screen test in Paris last week where we saw some of the first reels  images on the big , big screen.
Everything is there to see on the big screen! Stuff you would never spot on a smaller computer monitor like the really subtle painted textures on the characters and the detailed linework by Adrien and his team on the Bgs.


I'm working now on designing the posters and we are starting to think about possible book publishing deals and other tie in promotional ideas with our partners...exciting times ;-)