June 03, 2005
I'm a little late with this - but I interviewed the brilliant filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt about The Animation Show and his own latest work, The Meaning Of Life. My respect for him rose even higher than it already was when I read his responses to my questions. Read it and you'll see what I mean.
Due to time constraints, the interview was conducted via e-mail; at the very end of his last correspondence to me, he wrote: if you can help it please don't correct my grammar :)
I've got my own animation rendering out at the moment - what could be the first completed shot for this documentary project I'm working on. Although the rough cut deadline is just two weeks away, things have been fairly slow so far on my end. I'm creating these shots while the doc is being edited; meaning, I can't really finalize anything, and there's a lot of material I haven't even been able start on yet. That's about to change, however. I'm heading to Austin in a few hours to see the first fifteen minutes of the film, attend a production meeting and shoot some background plates; and when I get back I suspect the ratio of deliverables to deadlines will become far more daunting.
Until then, I think I'll go to sleep.
Posted by David Lowery at June 3, 2005 01:59 AM