Anna Chambers: the poo-fect designer

July 18th, Barbara and I met famed artist Anna Chambers. Brendan had sent us to her website the week before to get acquainted with her work. Her talent is obvious, but it was a certain drawing of a blue, poo-headed child that really caught our eye. The boy looks delighted with his headwear while the stink-line-emitting merdelette appears concerned to say the least. Cute and crazy - yay! As we clicked on through, we found adorably pathetic birdies, tiny proud caterpillars, foul-breathed old-timers, tounge-sticky-outty elves. We were no less impressed with the actual Anna. By the following Monday (after Comic-Con weekend, no less!) based on nothing more than the original short, the script and a bunch of stuff we said at her, Anna turned in drafts of the main characters that made our heads spin.



Visit Anna's website and her poo-rific blog.

xoxo
Vera

Sojourner Tooth (the writey process)

Late May to early July, we wrote up a couple outlines for episodes and decided that Barbara’s story of “Ugly” losing a feisty baby tooth, inspired by her own wisdom molar, was best suited for a pilot. Unfortunately, the week we were to write the script, twinny and I found ourselves on a series of descending-sized planes heading for the island town of Sydney, Nova Scotia, to see our ailing grandfather (below, in healthier times). Maybe that’s why our mum says the Kindly Old Timer reminds her of him.


Vera, Papa and Barbara

Back in LA, we finished the script and met with writer Mark Palmer on July 13th. I've known Mark since my very first animation job, as a PA on “Ahhh! Real Monsters” at Klasky Csupo. He told us that any show with the line “We can’t ask a mule to kick my twin in the face!” is a show for him. His punch-ups were fantastic - solid story structure tweaks and funny jokes. We made one more pass incorporating his notes and the script was done.

xoxo
Vera

Hi! Welcome to the Twincesses blog

First of all, I might have started this blog months ago. Barbara and I pitched the idea for "Twincesses" to the Six Point Harness development team back in May. True, it wasn't until the end of June when head 6PHers Brendan Burch and Dave Vamos gave us the official word. But the script's been final since mid-July and things have been moving forward ever since.

For the pitch, Barbara and I played my short The Legend of A Twin Princesses (see below). I'd finished this back in 2002, having set about creating the simplest animation possible in order not to blow up my 6GB laptop. The film premiered at the 2003 Silverlake Film Festival, and screened with films by Guy Maddin (who called it "charming" - swoon!) amongst other venues around town.

What's happened since? Redesign by Anna Chambers, voice recording by Brandon Johnson (Punk'd), Bauza ("Stimpy"), Matt Danner (animation wunderkind) and us twins, backgrounds by Mindy Lee and great work by the 6PH crew. Stay tuned for more!

xoxo
Vera



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