Pablo Ferro: Making the Movie

Promoting 'Pablo' beyond the feature film

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:47:01 -0800

The end of 07 brought some interesting conversations about the launching of a gallery tour with Pablo's art work throughout different countries. Pablo's inventory, currently in a garage in Van Nuys, includes a wealth of his fifty year plus career,...

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A Tale of Triumph over Tragedy

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:28:32 -0800

The script had come a long way - long enough for us to get Jeff Bridges to spend a day of his own time in a Santa Monica sound studio with us, getting the voice track down. But we felt the script needed even more. We wanted to streamline the stor...

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The warm voice of Jeff Bridges

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:15:26 -0800

The character of the Dude played by Jeff Bridges in the Cohen Brothers' The Big Lebowski turned out to be a fortuitous reference point for our Pablo character in the Pablo movie script: both are characters in sync with their times and comfortable...

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The script

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:14:55 -0800

So the guy gets awards everywhere, he parties hard on the sixties, the whole thing is animated and he's full of famous friends, but what is the story about? By this time I had researched Pablo Ferro enough to proclaim myself an expert in the fiel...

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Cutting a documentary scene ...

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:43:27 -0700

With the animation test up, I turned my attention to a documentary scene of the film. We chose to cut a scene showing 72-year-old Pablo getting one of his life time achievement awards. The scene shows Pablo "arriving on the scene" in New York, "ge...

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Animation test (thank-you JJ & Mr. Magoo)

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:31:24 -0700

We came up with the idea of re-sampling the classic UPA/Mr.Magoo design of wild colors and asymmetric shapes, and build it with photographic elements within 3D modeling, all of it layered with a wealth visual effects. A look that sets out to be ...

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Animation development - what are these characters going to look like?

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:14:02 -0700

The context of the environments came to us easier as an ode to the rich graphic shapes of vintage Mr Magoo cartoons, interpreted with modern day technology, yet the look of the characters seemed to be more challenging, after all the screenplay pro...

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Animation quest: around the world and back again

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:28:12 -0700

The "Who is Pablo Ferro" teaser video came out well, but gave no clue that this was indeed a narrative, animated film. The layer of animation on top of live footage wasn't anywhere close to our entire vision for the film. And if animation was to b...

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Who is Pablo Ferro?

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:15:31 -0700

Norman Lear generously got us started with some development funds, and we compiled a sequence with some of our generous interview subjects taking a stab at our central question: Who is Pablo Ferro? Jonathan Demme told us that Pablo "had a visual...

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In the beginning ...

nobody@vox.com(Versatility & Love) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:48:48 -0700

When we set out to make a biopic on Pablo Ferro, it felt like an interesting idea to combine an animated storyline with documentary footage. And while we're at it, why not throw in a dozen celebrity interviews, add a touch of motion graphic vigne...

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