Ch. 5 Scratch Tracks and Storyboards

SCRATCH TRACKS When Fishy animator Guillermo Gomez first joined the project,  one of the first things he said to do was create a scratch track of the song with all the dialogue.  What is a scratch track?  It’s a rough recording of the film song and dialogue.   The goal of a scratch track is get …

The Story of an Animation Ch. 1

” Down the Rabbit Hole” Several years ago, I joined a San Francisco–based film cooperative called Scarycow.  After volunteering on a couple of projects as a PA and location scout, I embarked on a journey to create a short animated musical film based on one of my scripts called “The Fishy’s Tale”.  This is a …