Jamal goes anime!

Okay...so I have this idea in my head that in the final ten pages of the script when Jamal is climbing the beanstalk...it's going to be kind of hard to effectively film that with the limited technology I have access to. What I have decided is that I will turn that last part into an animation! I'm very excited about that...especially seeing as how I love cartoons. When the first episode is published it will begin as a regular book with one to two pages of color illustrations dispersed throughout. However, when it gets to the scene when Jamal sees the leaf sticking from out of the concrete...it becomes a graphic novel written like a comic book! This is a dope idea because it coincides with how the film will be shot. I have been working with an illustrator...Ronald Jones from AIU. He is a talented 2D artist and is doing my pre-production for me, which entails designing the characters, giving them different expressions, and eventually making a storyboard. I am also going to have him illustrate the graphic novel portion of the book. That way the cartoon images will be the same as the book images. He has come up with a few faces that I thought were cool. I narrowed a few down to what I liked, and then he focused on those with new expressions. He also redrew the body of Jamal and gave him some clothes. This is an awesome experience! P.S...I chose number 2 Enjoy the pics. Q. Kalique