The Latest From Dissident Wire

We have just come back from this year’s Cartoon Forum in Sopron, Hungary; where we were pitching Dissident Wire to a range of broadcasters and investors.  We made some great contacts and got overridingly positive and enthusiastic feedback on the work.  A big thanks to the event organisers and hope to see everyone again next year!

After 4 years in Middlesbrough we have moved up to Newcastle.  Our offices are now based in Greenesfield Business Centre in Gateshead.

Tuesday night, so, as the time honoured tradition demands, all available members of Polygon Fiction were taking photographs of service alley debris.

That’s a wrap! First three day shoot complete, we now have roughly 80% of the footage for the first episode of The Decline. James was barely able to contain his excitement.

We fitted replacement head and tail lights into Alberto’s scrap reject Nissan and strapped the bonnet down with flimsy vinyl tape. Pulling onto the main drag out of Boro, the car groaned like a sinking ship. It does that when you turn left - Alberto’s words.

While the happy, well adjusted Newcastle city slickers shouted at taxi drivers and punched each other, we were standing quietly in unassuming jackets on the Quayside. This is a shot planned for the intro sequence - establishing, classically North Eastern. This is one of a stitch, the total collage is of six. Three across, two up. Not sure where it will go, exactly, or whether it’ll need filtering or sketching over. We will see.

Having finished these we loaded into the Nissan to move on to the next location. Foglia turned the key in the ignition. Nothing happened. It seemed momentarily strange, walking by, to see a man sitting alone in his minivan in a deserted car park outside The Sage. Actually, this guy saved the day. He offered to jump start the car, but neither party had any leads. He gave us a lift through the dark in the minivan up to the garage. ‘Like A Virgin’ played on the local radio station. We didn’t have much small talk to us.

Turned out the cables had come clean off the battery, some tension in the angle of the wire must have kept the vital component scraping the contact.

Need to go back again tonight. There’s shots from an estate high rise and from the inside of an A road tunnel still to do.

Hi everyone, new Rotoscope trailer on the videos page.

A tech demo of the now obsolete mo-cap centric pipeline.

The Decline Technical Trailer from Polygon Fiction on Vimeo.

The original trailer we produced for the Digital City Fellowship application.

Polygon Fiction Teaser from Sam Goldwater on Vimeo.

The first news post of The Decline! The site is (almost) all running and now all we have to do is continue killing ourselves until some films get made.