He had interpreted all our mistakes as an artistically intentional thing. The TIFF guy thought it was actually really creative in leaving all those looseleaf papers and drawings in. I felt so dejected, but then I got a call from TIFF, congratulating me and saying we were in. I didn’t think we were even going to get in. “Everything was sort of a disaster, sending storyboard drawings. Munden, with co-writer and co-animator Neil Rathbone and producer Mike Glasz, submitted only 20 per cent of The Chaperone to the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Everything was like re-inventing the wheel for us.” And, honestly, though we are credited as animators, we had no real animation training at school. “But in terms of the volume of work involved, it was so much more than anything we had done before. “It took us so long to get our bearings together, so we decided to get a feel from the festivals if we were on the right track,” says Munden, who graduated with a degree in communications from Concordia. In fact, even before The Chaperone was completely finished, it was entered into a slew of film fests and, among other honours and cash awards, it picked up the Gold Audience Award and Most Creative Short Award at Fantasia and the Coupe du Court Grand Prize for best short in Quebec at Prends ça court.Īrticle content The Chaperone director Fraser Munden and teacher-hero Ralph Whims. Some of the funding for The Chaperone came from Vaseline and Pepper winning $2,500 in technical services for having taken The Norman McLaren Award for best short at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival. Why I Was Out There deals with an alleged UFO sighting in the Point, while the equally whimsical Vaseline and Pepper focuses on the tale of a 12-year-old who made himself a bogus beard of Vaseline and pepper flakes in order to get into a strip club. The Chaperone is actually the third short in a trilogy based on stories Munden heard while growing up. The narrative is compelling enough in The Chaperone, but I wanted to sensationalize it enough that it could play anywhere and fit into any category.” “To speak truthfully, I try to ram as many gimmicks as humanly possible into my films. “I like to think of my work as an unconventional approach to documentary shorts,” Munden, 29, understates. To keep costs down, the film was made in Munden’s Point St-Charles basement, living room and driveway as well as at a nearby football field. He used over 10,000 hand drawings, many of which he coloured himself.Īnd, oh yeah, Munden claims The Chaperone is the first animated documentary made entirely in stereoscopic 3D. Munden has recreated the story by melding hand-drawn animation, miniature sets, puppets, live action Kung Fu and special-effects explosions. He calls The Chaperone an animated documentary, which sounds simple enough. With such rich and riveting source material, Munden could have easily re-enacted this drama in a live-action film that would have taken just a few weeks to shoot and edit. Whims did get a wee bit of help from the dance DJ, Stefan Czernatowicz, but his martial-arts prowess became the stuff of legend in the Point. Hoping to have a better idea of timeline during the next week or so.Though his students thought he was cool enough a teacher, no one had a clue that Whims was really Point St-Charles’s answer to Bruce Lee, deftly using his arms and legs to effectively neutralize and even hospitalize a few of the dozen desperadoes who disrupted the dance. I will be doing some BBW comics under the name "Otto Maddox" for them, but to find the continuations of the old series, you'll have to hang on for the new site. While the old site I worked for retains the old archived comics, my new comics as of July 2011, will no longer be featured on their site. I will also be posting some new series clips in my gallery here soon.įor those wondering, the following series will be carried on the new site:įree of old constraints, I'm hoping to revitalize some of the old comics as well in time. I am hoping to get some samples and tour pages up on the new domain shortly. Well, just wanted to let everyone who follows my work know about it. Same great JAG27 with the same great comic series but on a better designed site for half the price. I'll be updating a new comic a week as always. After a few months when I get my content built up a bit and a decent library going, the final price on the site will be $20 with $15 rebills. Initially it will be only $10 with no rebill option. The site is still in BETA testing, as it will of course be a pay site, but for those of you who follow my work and have been deterred from the old site I worked for because of the ridiculously high price.you will be happy to know the new site price will be way cheaper. HTTP://[Eyeronik Comics will be the site hosting all new JAG27 comics. JAG27-2012 comics will be hosted on the following site:
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