The Constellations

New Characters!!!

2008-12-08T18:12:00.000-08:00

Well, it's been some time since our last post. Things are going good in the Constellation world, and we've been really busy working hard on trying to get the Constellations out there. We have some new concepts and characters that we think will really help bring some dynamic to the group. What do you think about the two new characters on the sides?

The Toy

2007-01-21T09:05:00.000-08:00

Sculpted by Jason Peltz
Design by Jessica Borutski

The Final Piece

2006-12-06T08:19:00.000-08:00

So here it is folks, the fine sculpture work of Jason Peltz . Jess and I are really happy with how its turned out.

PUG

2006-11-29T06:56:00.000-08:00

Another pug pic from Jess

PUGS

2006-11-16T13:50:00.000-08:00

Well the newest show idea is in the works, I wont go into much detail, apart from the fact its about PUGS. Jess and I were talking on MSN about the idea, then she whipped this doodle up. Here it is!!!

More Fun

2006-11-15T09:32:00.000-08:00

So here is Jason Peltz latest update on what he is doing with the sculpture.

Update

2006-11-06T09:38:00.000-08:00

Well things are going good in the Constellation world. We have been busy working on all the logistics of creating the toy, and also we have been in contact with some toy companies, trying to convince them of our idea. Cross your fingers.

Here is another update of the sculpture that Jason Peltz is working on. Jess and I are really happy with how things have turned out with the sculpture.

First look

2006-10-26T11:27:00.000-07:00

This is first look at The Constellations toy that's being sculpted by the extremely talented Jason Peltz. Currently we are shopping the toy idea around to see if we can get some interest, then if no big toy companies jump on this, we will produce it ourselves and sell it on the web. We will be posting the development of the toy as we go along.

Toys

2006-10-12T15:37:00.000-07:00

So here is what the toy will look like. We have a really talented scupltor (Jason Peltz) that will be working with us to make this happen. You can see some of the other great stuff he has sculpted his website is http://home.cfl.rr.com/peltzproductions/ . Jason's credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mushu from Mulan, Tarzan, Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove, Jumba from Lilo and Stitch, and Koda from Brother Bear.

Toys?

2006-10-03T10:32:00.000-07:00

Well hello folks. So another update to what we have been doing. Currently we are writing a few more episodes of The Constellations, and once that's done we are going to re-submit the show to the folks at Nickelodeon and try to convince them to jump on this stuff.

Also we have been working on the idea of creating toys of the girls. We have been in talks with an amazing sculptor, so hopefully sometime soon. We will have more info for you next week.

Also was wondering if anyone would be interested in T-shirts of the constellations? If anyone was, what do you think would look cool for the T-Shirt? Either all the girls together, maybe just one or two, in their mythical or human forms? Well if anyone has idea's let me know, and we'll make it happen. Our plans are to put them on cafepress.com after we design them.

The Constellations people to thank

2006-09-28T12:57:00.000-07:00

Hey hey, Chris Dainty here. Well we did our pitch and we didn’t even mess up a line. We got some really helpful constructive criticism, which was a huge help. We are working on writing some new episode ideas then we will re submit and who knows maybe it will take off one day soon. But overall we are really happy of what we pitched, and it seemed to go over good. We will keep you posted.

So lets talk about the origin of this show idea. Well it all started with Jess, she had an idea about four girls that lived in a magical place where anything was possible. Then I asked her, "Hey want to work on this idea together?" So we started to build the world of the Constellations. The overall idea came from us tossing ideas back and forth of what these mythical creatures could be. Then the idea, Constellations came about. We looked in a book to see if there even was constellations to the characters Jess had designed. We make some changes, one being that Picey was at one point a fairy, which we changed to being the fish.

Jessica did all the designs for the characters as I wrote the show bible. We would often toss ideas back and forth to what they should look like, we even based Dr. Logic off a friend of ours, which was really funny. With our first episode that we wrote Jess came up with the idea for a talent show. I wrote the episode but every step of the way would bounce ideas back and forth. Finally after everything was written, I took Jess' AMAZING artwork and put it together for our show bible. And then 6 months later we both had a show pitch under our belt.

It’s been a great experience working with Jess, and so many others on this project.

I just wanted to thank;

Jessica - The constellations is nothing without your amazing art!

Gerry - Thanks for your animation help, you’re a genius animator

Juan - Thanks for helping us sparkle with your AMAZING special effects

Ren - Always great working with you

Max - Your music gave our show something great, your crazy talented!

Kyle - Great work, its been awesome getting to know you. You gave me so many good ideas

Norrie - Your the Pro Tools master!

Alana - Thanks for fixing me bad grammar hehehe

Andrea - Thanks for the late night last min grammar fixes you helped me big time

Michel - Seeing the start of it all, thanks for all the ideas.

Sylvie - You gave our show an iconic logo, Thank you SO MUCH!

Maral - Picking our show to be pitched at the animation festival

-All the people that we dropped by their house to practice our pitch, thanks for lessening

Without these people help we wouldn’t have developed a show that I'm so proud to have my name on. It’s really been a great experience working on this show, and now its at the point were we are at the fine tuning stage and we'll see where it leads us.

The Animation!!!

2006-09-19T09:07:00.000-07:00

Dr. Logic

2006-09-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

Animation pitch almost done

2006-09-11T09:28:00.002-07:00

So we have been busy recording audio for the pitch. The picture above is of Dylan Black when he was over recording the narration for our pitch. You might have heard is voice before if you live in the Ottawa area as he is a radio personality on The Bear 106.9. He also did a voice for the crazy Aunt Irene in my short "Emma Graves". He is on Myspace at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84551958

Also in the background you can see our big poster that we got printed for the pitch.

We should have the animated pitch/short up on youtube by wed.

10 days till we pitch, craziness!!!!!!!!!

Here is the link to the Ottawa Animation Festival page about our pitch.
http://ottawa.awn.com/?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=76&Itemid=1

Here is a pic of Jess and her dog, which was the inspiration for Dr. Logic's dog.

Press time!

2006-09-07T08:17:00.000-07:00

Rogers television will be filming a segment at Dainty Productions next week. I will be showing how we are animating The Constellations . So if your in the Ottawa area for the animation festival you'll be able to watch it. I will post more detail closer to the air date.

IMPORTANT party info!!! If your in the Ottawa on the 22nd of September we are having a party to celebrate our pitch, and hopefully we will have our show sold by then, hehehe. More details to come.

Web site up and running. www.daintyproductions.net

The colorful world of The Constellations

2006-08-28T16:58:00.000-07:00

Well we finally have a look for the backgrounds! Jess did this amazing painting digitally. AMAZING work Jess!!! We are slowly getting closer to our pitch day only 23 days left,,,,, craziness!!!

Animation time

2006-08-24T21:02:00.000-07:00

So we have started to animate the Constellations. We are creating a short bit of animation for our pitch in September. We will post some samples sortly.

Clean up of Dr. Logic

2006-08-22T19:06:00.000-07:00

Well its been crunch time for Jess and I this past little while. We are putting together some animation for our pitch and things are really starting to come together. I sent the Pitch Bible to the printer today, and the result was AWESOME! We will hopefully have some animation to show you guys in the near future.

New Logo

2006-08-15T13:53:00.000-07:00

So here is the new logo for "The Constellations". It was created by the very talented Sylvie Bissonette. Amazing work Sylvie!!! The older version didn't really have the cartoony look to it, and I find that this one really shows more of what the show should look like

Clean up

2006-08-10T20:53:00.000-07:00

So here is Aurora all cleaned up. Its done in Flash using a WACOM pen.

The Big Pitch - SEPTEMBER 21/2006

2006-08-05T16:32:00.000-07:00

Well The Constellations has a date for being pitched. We will be pitching the show at the Ottawa Animation Festival at the TAC "Pitch THIS". The Constellations is one of two winners, chosen from over 50 proposals from Canada, the US and overseas.

Pitch THIS! will be held on the second day of TAC, Thursday, September 21 at 11:00 am at the Chateau Laurier hotel. We have 10 minutes to pitch infront of a crap load of people. Following our pitch, there will be a 30 minute discussion and Q&A with the panelists, addressing the content and presentation of our pitch.

Panelists confirmed to date are:
Peter Gal, Director, Development and Animation, Nickelodeon
Heather Kenyon, Director of Development, Original Animation, Cartoon Network
Madeleine Levesque, Director, Original Production, TELETOON Canada
Linda Simensky, Senior Director of Children's Programming, PBS
Catherine Winder, Executive Producer at Lucasfilm Animation, will be
moderating.

Jessica's Cartoon

2006-07-25T11:19:00.000-07:00

This short was featured on Nickelodeon in the Nicktoons festival in 2005. It also was showcased in the Ottawa Animation Festival in 2005.

Chris Dainty's "Emma Graves"

2006-07-17T13:04:00.000-07:00

This is my short of another show pitch that I'm working on independently called Emma Graves. The short was created to showcase how the characters interact for the series. Emma Graves target audience is girls 6-11. I hope you guys like it.

Also we will be posting Jessica's Panda's short soon. If you want to watch it now go to www.jessicaborutski.com

new pic

2006-07-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

A new pic to show you guys.

Chris Dainty here, well this has been one roller coaster ride for me these last two months. From losing a good friend, to seeing my dreams in my career materialize it’s been an eventful time in my life. I've been working hard on my company Dainty Productions and just finished up my first contract for a small animated piece that will be featured in a documentary on CBC this Sunday the 16th at noon.

Apart from The Constellations, Jess and I have both independently been working on our own show pitches. I've been working on creating a show pitch for my short Emma Graves and Jess has been working on creating a show bible for her short Pandas. I will try and put these shorts up on the blog in the near future.

Jumping out of the stars

2006-07-08T09:58:00.000-07:00

So we had a question in one of the comments

"was wondering do they have to go back to their 'star' form?"

And the answer is that in every episode it starts with them popping out of the night sky in the early morning. And every episode ends at dusk with The Constellations jumping off the clouds and turning back into their constellation star form.