Feature Article on Shane Acker's 9

[AnimWatch]

This month's feature article (http://www.animwatch.com/F17-ShaneAckers9.php) at AnimWatch is on Shane Acker's 9. Tell your friends and forum buddies...

Enjoy!

-Og

[Sky]

Great article! I've been wondering what was going on with that project. It's good to know the film is still coming. Not many short film directors get to make their own features.

[AnimWatch]

Oh, yeah, it's just the dream, isn't it? I hope things go well for Shane.

Poor guy, sounds like he's just running like a hamster in a wheel.

[Mathias]

Great job on the article! Always enjoy reading thoose features! A great source of inspiration.

[ZooRocket]

Very nice article as always Steve. Still leaves me wanting to see the short. Hopfully it will become available somewhere... someday.

[DonShole]

Thanks for the article. All I can say is - Inspiring!

[TeviH]

Nice feature, Og!

Very glad to see Shane is making a feature film based off a story idea he already had, rather than trying to come up with something... then it might be like a bad sequel...

[kori]

Enjoyed the article.

On another topic. (I am not talking about 9.) I wonder how many of these short amateur animation makers are contacted by feature film makers/houses, but the feature film never happens. I have noticed that many of these amateurs get rather secretive about their animations after they release their short. They hint that they have been contacted by this studio or that film house, but you never see the film produced. I don’t know what goes wrong. Perhaps that’s just the nature of feature films, a lot of talk and promises, but no feature film. At least, not often.

The one example that sticks in my mind is Ghost Warrior. I bought the DVD of the short and his book on the making of Ghost Warrior. The last I heard he was off to Europe to make his feature film, and then he fill off the radar. I wonder what happened?

Kori

[TeviH]

I would guess that there's an absolute ton of work beforee even pre-pro starts, just working out the business aspect of the deal. And then, I bet studios just like to buy up rights to titles and stories and maybe start a little work on a new film, just to keep a store of possible movies. They probably don't actually green-light everything.

dunno.

[AnimWatch]

This is really straying farther and farther off topic, but the whole secretive cloak-and-dagger nature of the shorts biz is starting to turn me off.

[Mathias]

Perhaps we could open up a new thread on the subject? Think its an interesting subject although I have very little insight in it how it really works, apart from the actual "reveal as little info as possible" thing.
Other than that, I love the article, as I said earlier. Its a great community aswell as the site you put much effort into, you should have alot of kudos for keeping it all going with new articles flowing in and all the work behind the scenes.

[AnimWatch]

Perhaps we could open up a new thread on the subject?

OK. New thread HERE (http://animwatch.com/forum/showthread.php?t=721).