[Studio Daily]
In 1980, Monty Python founder Graham Chapman wrote a memoir, A Liar’s Autobiography Volume VI, with just enough biographical material to hold it together and more than enough cheek to keep Python fans happy. Like the blazingly original Monty Python’s Flying Circus comedy show and the iconic films it spawned after its 1969 – 1974 run on the BBC, the book is more a series of satirical skits than one linear, confessional narrative. …
Instead, after Chapman’s partner discovered the tapes in their loft and turned them over to producers Ben Timlett, Jeff Simpson and Bill Jones (who happens to be Terry Jones’ son), a better, almost Pythonesque idea emerged: why not blend Chapman’s narration with voiceovers from the troupe’s creators, playing themselves but also key members of Chapman’s family, and have 16 different animation facilities visualize that feast in 3D?
“You’ve Done Stereo 3D for Movies Before, Right?”
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Setting the Tone for Collaboration and 3D
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Modeling and Character Design
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Keeping 3D Comps in Softimage
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With Superfad’s segments nearing completion and final renders from each animation house due in mid-October, the filmmakers, working with Brainstorm Media and Trinity, will have the long winter months to piece the film’s disparate 3D parts together into a meaningful whole. Graham Chapman’s A Liar’s Autobiography will premiere this spring in theatrical release in the U.K. and in the United States on the Epix channel, currently only available on Verizon FiOS.
How true to the Python legacy will that film ultimately be? It depends on whom you ask. Terry Jones, often the butt of both Chapman’s and Cleese’s jokes, told The New York Times the film shouldn’t be made. “There isn’t a single word of truth in it,” he said with a wink and a nudge. For Superfad, Python fans all, the answer lies in the nature of the project itself. “A lot of people have asked us if we felt we needed to maintain that prototypical, collaged Monty Python animated look,” says Dougherty. “If anything, this whole process is the collage, with all the studios and different looks involved. The film will be an amazing collage of styles. But we’re really happy with where our piece ended up. Everyone here really pushed themselves and learned a lot along the way.”
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