2 Years Work

Here is the result of 2 years work. All fit onto 11 DVD's. This is just the animatics, audio and storyboard pannels for Driver Dans Story Train. The actual animation files or the green screen would be a totally different story.

The Final Final Cut

So we have finished the Animatics on Driver Dan's Story Train now. This is a view of the timeline of the last episode special. What you are looking at is 22 mins, blue blocks are storyboard panels (top 3 rows). Then in the audio tracks (all 24 of them) are the blip track (blip at the start of each new scene), Dan's line, 6 kids tracks, 12 character tracks, 2 sound effect tracks and the bottom two tracks are the dump tracks (unused lines). Fhew indeed I hear you say.
We use Final Cut Pro to do the animatics.

Story Board

Here is a page from one of the Storyboards from Driver Dan's Story Train. These are done by Mr Phil. Each episode has two weeks for storyboard, that's one week rough and one week clean up, typing out, corrections, making sure all the characters are the right hight to each other, adding a few extra panels for clarity of action etc. adding back ground detail, making sure the staging is right etc.

Children In Need

Here is Driver Dan practicing the routine with Cerrie for the Children in Need dance. You can watch it here.
Mr Matt also helped Dan with his moves.

Team

Here are the team for Driver Dan's Story Train. Don't they look happy.

Art Briefs

 

 Here is a picture of all the finished art briefs for the storybook art for Driver Dan's Story Train series two. 

Driver Dan

Look who came into the office today! Choo Wooooo!!

Story Train Shoot

Today we shot a new title sequence for Driver Dan's Story Train. Look there is the book.
On the frount row is Miss Maggie, Miss Brooke, Miss Suzanne, Mr Elliot, Mr Sai, Miss Dot, Miss Tia, Miss Ella, Mr Caspar and Miss Helen. On the back row is Mr Gary, Mr Stan and Mr James.

Storybook Brief

Here is one of the pages that is given to the artists for the artwork for the storybook. This is an indication where elements should go for each page, normally drawings are not given but sometimes it is best to do for clarity. When we get the roughs and then the finished artwork I will show you them on here so you can compare.

Story Corner at the RWA

Here is a picture of the opening night of the Jamacia Street Artists exhibition at the RWA on friday. Here you can see their very own Story Corner including looping video of Miss Leah, Mr Tom and Miss Serena storybook sections from Driver Dan's Story Train. The books in story corner are a selection of all the illustrators various children's books that have been published.
It was a very successful opening night as one point there were over a hundred people queuing to get in. I also noticed that the Matisse rooms were somewhat empty in comparison!

You can see the show at the RWA in Bristol (BS8 1PX) until the 8th Feb

A Story Page

This is one of the pages from Driver Dan's books. This one is by miss Serena .

Another Story Train Book Page.

This page is by the muscular mr Tom (the person not the nut bar). Look at the lill fishes!

A Different Book Page

Hello, sorry for the gap between posts, we are very busy here at the moment. Here is another page from one of the story books in Driver Dan's Story Train. This one is from miss Rachel

Congo Conga Storybook Art

Here is the first page of the Congo Conga storybook from Driver Dan's Story Train. This was painted by miss Leah. All the animals are hiding. You can actually purchase the Congo Conga story book from book shops!

Another Studio Shot

Here is a picture of another of the CG rooms during production on Story Train. Two people missing from the seats! They did not in no way run off when I started to take photos, no sir.

Driver Dan Screen Shot

Morning, here is a shot of Driver Dan being animated. This was Miss dani's screen and she would like to point out that I took the photo before she had the chance to make Driver Dan hold the book. We use 3dstudio to animate the show.

Story Train

Here are some more prop paintings by miss Rebecca for Driver Dan's Story Train.

Another Studio Photo

Here you can see lots of boxes. The ones on the right all contain the storyboards for Driver Dan's Story Train. There were 52 episodes and each episode was an average of 30 x A3 pages. All expertly drawn by Mr Phil and Mr Andy.

Much more studio

Here is a photo from one of the shelves in the back studio. Here you can see some early trees and bushes from Driver Dan's Story Train. These were made out of cardboard and paper to figure out how things would work before they are made in the computer.

Pillows!

Here is a picture of where we are keeping the actual pillows for the title sequence for Driver Dan's Story Train. In the garage on top of the classic Volvo. These pillows have also been to Abu Dhabi for when the Arabic version of the show was filmed. Each one was made by Miss Rebecca. I helped on one of the pillows, I wanted to join in and Miss Rebecca let me.