Hey, loyal readers 

I hope everybody's doing really well and that your lives have been blessed since last we spoke.  I just thought I'd let you guys know that with the college year almost ending, the team is once again preparing to start conceptualizing and planning as we did at the end of last summer.  This summer, we hope to get a few things done with this film that we think are both very important and very exciting. 

First off, our passion for this project just isn't going away at all.  We feel so strongly still yet, even after our delays and other obligations have set in.  I think it's a great sign, and this is personally the only way I would ever decide to do a film.  It has to be a passion project, it's just too hard to do something you don't care about, and even if you do it, it won't be good. 

With this in mind, we've started discussions on what we want for the final molds of the Turtles to be handled this summer, as well as a Foot Ninja master mold that would be used in the Foot factory I spoke of in the last post.  The Turtles molds will most likely be based upon the concept maquette we created that's featured in our image section.  There will however most assuredly be small additions and changes that will only aid in making the Turtles more comic book accurate and will in no way alter them from that vision.  We are making a direct translation of the visuals from those very first issues of TMNT and have no intention to stray from that design for the Turtles.  We think you'll all be very pleased with the final result of these molds.

Next, we want to start more expirements with the digital photography of claymation than ever before.  Our goal is to try and make this movie as digitally as possible because we feel this will allow for much more flexability in terms of what can be done with the clay.  As technology progresses, the execution of these kinds of independent films will become easier, more cost-effective, and most importantly, more expressive of the film-makers' intent.  We have a very clear artistic goal in mind, and our sensabilities with this film are so nuanced and unlike anything conventional that we need to have the best technology possible to capture that.  The feeling we want to evoke is a strong one, and I think this claymation film is one that is based upon feeling, and mood more so than any other aspect.

Lastly, we will chime back in in March for a full review of the upcoming CGI film, TMNT.  We're keeping our fingers crossed that this film avenges fans after what happened with TURTLES III. lol

'Till March, Cheers, and God bless you and yours

- Team TMNT