Commission - Little Blue

Before entering the actual production for the End of Year animation, the uni had found someone who wanted an animation doing and put mine, Anthony Price and Will Padgett's names forward. We the decided to take on the work together and hopefully get it done faster.

We met with the client and he introduced himself as Phil Westerby-Jones, a man who has his own company known as Little Blue. He gave us Storyboards to work to and offered us £300 for the animation. Between Me, Will and Ant, for us to actually make a profit we said we'd do it within 3 days so it's £100 a day between all of us.

During the first day we created an animatic using the Storyboards Will had recreated, at the end of the day Phil came to see the progress and he liked what we had done. The second and then final day were spent working on the animation until we finally finished. This is the end result;

Phil came in to see the finished animation and his reaction was not what we expected, he didn't like what we had produced and asked us to do more changes. Because of this we asked him for an extra £50 for the changes, he agreed to this and went on his way.

The following day we had begun doing the changed until we finally finished, this is what we then had;

when Phil came back he still didn't like what we had made and asked us to do more changes. We agreed to do these final changed but we weren't getting paid anymore, a week had passed and we were wondering if Phil would want anymore changes, we called him in and asked if what we were doing was fine... It wasn't apparently. We then said to him we couldn't do anymore work unless we were paid more, however he was not happy that we were asking to be paid more for the changes and ended up leaving. Because of this we threw what we had together and called it a day. This is the final animation;

Phil did not like the final animation, however because of the past arguments and none negotiable ways we decided to let the uni themselves deal with it, since we were not given fair rights during the project. The uni ended up cutting loose Phil and using the animation for advertisement means. We ended up getting the £350 and just going off on our ways. This was certainly an experience and a first hand look at what it is like to have a client from hell.