Here is a sneaky peak at some of the early development and concept art for The Fearsome Beastie – there will be much more coming soon…
The Beastie character in various key poses
Posts by Giles Paley-Phillips:
Progressive Pre-School Magazine interviews The Fearsome Beastie Author Giles Paley-Philllips, about CG Animation of the award winning picture book
Progressive Pre-School Magazine article
Yesterday saw Alison Steadman come to the recording studios in Farnham to record the narrator for the Fearsome Beastie. Alison was so amazing, we even cast her as the Grandmother character, on the spot!
From left to right: Joe Sudlow (sound designer), Alison Steadman, Giles Paley-Phillips (author) and Jon Hunt (co-director). Bottom left to right: Aaron Wood (producer) and Katie Steed (co-director)
Animation Magazine reports on the casting of The Fearsome Beastie: http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/brian-blessed-voices-fearsome-beastie/
Legendary actor Brian Blessed visited the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) at Farnham to record his part in a new film being produced by UCA and Slurpy Studios: http://www.britflicks.co.uk/news.aspx?newsid=701
Co-director Katie Steed, Brian Blessed and co-director Jon Hunt
ITV News report on Brian Blessed becoming The Fearsome Beastie: http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-07-17/brian-blessed-to-become-fearsome-beastie/
From left to right: author Giles Paley-Phillips, Brian Blessed and producer Aaron Wood
Pictureville posts about Brian Blessed becoming The Fearsome Beastie: http://www.pictureville.net/2013/07/brian-blessed-will-voice-fearsome.html
The 14th July saw Brian Blessed record his lines for the Beastie character – here are a few photos from a memorable day!
The Production Team, from left top: Joe Sudlow (sound designer), Giles Paley-Phillips (Fearsome Beastie author), Steve & Brian Blessed, Jon Hunt (director) and Steve Bicknell (Maverick Publishing). Left bottom: Katie Steed (director) and Aaron Wood (producer)
Show Me The Animation reports on Brian Blessed joining the cast of The Fearsome Beastie: http://www.showmetheanimation.com/index.php/brian-blessed-to-be-the-voice-of-the-fearsome-beastie/
Verbal Vigilante, AKA composers Jode Steele & David Wainwright, write music for film, TV, games & motion picture advertising. There work includes music & sound-design for the trailer campaigns of “Oblivion”, “The Dark Knight Rises”, “The Lone Ranger”, “After Earth”, “Trance” & “Thor: The Dark World”.
Jode Steele (left) & David Wainwright (right) of Verbal Vigilante will be scoring The Fearsome Beastie