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The Price - The Original Animatic from Christopher Salmon on Vimeo.
In 2010, Kickstarter was still a relatively new phenomenon. There weren't yet any million-dollar projects, and early innovators were still learning what the platform could do for creative projects. One project I wrote about was Christopher Salmon's adaptation of the Neil Gaiman short story, The Price. Christopher was looking for $150k to produce what is arguably the ultimate fan film, and even got the attention of the writer himself, through a well executed animatic.
That animatic, a kind of rough sketch of what the film could be, featured a not-quite-3D style which showed that Christopher was serious in his intent and ability to bring the story to life. Set to an audiobook narration that Neil himself had made, along with a generic music bed, Christopher created a tone and style with his art that elicited a real emotional response to the subject matter.
His Kickstarter video touched on that animatic a bit, pulling select cuts to help convince potential backers that the filmmaker could pull this off. And while Christopher is busy continuing to work on finishing the film, he's offered his patient backers a glimpse of what's to come by way of that full-length animatic, which I've embedded above.
So for fans of Neil Gaiman's work, and readers of GeekDad who were following this project over two years ago, enjoy this follow up to that story. And stay tuned for Christopher Salmon's eventual release of The Price. I wholeheartedly recommend following along with his production blog to watch the story come to life.
