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Caddy Club Trailer Reveals 3 Superpowers

Earlier this year we released a teaser trailer for The Caddy Club movie. The trailer reveals three of the five superpowers gifted to the Caddy Club kids by mystical ancestors they meet in a magical realm. Let’s explore the three trailer reveals in this post.

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Caddy Club Cast Kills Studio Session

Murder they wrote. The cast of The Caddy Club slayed their roles as musical superheroes in a recent studio recording session. After rehearsing for weeks to record teasers from the animated movie, the ensemble cast of experienced stage and screen performers couldn’t wait to hit the studio. Read on for more.

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Caddy Club Cast & Characters

See The Caddy Club‘s Trinidadian voice actors alongside the characters they play in the animated movie.

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Caddy Club Character Design Competition Winner!

Congratulations to animator and illustrator Patrick Meikle who took home The Caddy Club 2D Character Design Competition’s “Bess Character Design” Prize with the competition’s highest scoring character concepts for lead characters Keisha and Ryan. Patrick, a Jamaica native, won a JMD $20,000 cash prize and is now the top candidate for a paid position as character designer for The Caddy Club.

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4 Tips for Drawing Impactful Character Art

Movies are about characters. When we watch movies, we connect to characters and become emotionally invested in the things they do on screen. In animated movies, we bring characters to life through a design process that uses shapes and colours to visually communicate character elements like age, personality and cultural perspective. Having worked with and listened to creative producers, character artists and animators over the past years, I recently spoke with concept artist Oludare Marcelle and animator/illustrator Sheraine Peart at the 2020 Animae Caribe Festival about how to design characters to maximize your ability to connect with audiences so that you can make an impact through your art. Here are my top takeaways.

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Swing Into Impactful Character Design

Thanks to our generous patreon supporters and support from Nestle and FilmTT, we’re launching an initiative to add a top 2D character designer to The Caddy Club team. Our feature-length animated film will tee up its 2D Character Design Competition at 3pm on October 31, 2020 with a talk on Character Design for Impact at this year’s Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival. Catch the replay on storyplay.tv.

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Story Play at the SocaMom Summit

The Internet is a glorious place. And the networking power of social media has renewed glory in my mind having recently joined Eva Wilson aka SocaMom at her three-day SocaMom Summit. I connected with Eva on Twitter after I became a fan of her refreshingly unapologetically Caribbean-American mommy tweets. I attended her April SocaMom Summit and sat in my at-home audience seat while she served up an inspiring buffet of Caribbean professionals and holistic health gurus (mostly women) sharing how they do life and do it well. So when SocaMom posted a call for speakers to join her June SocaMom Summit I was eager to answer her call for a chance to share my perspective and insights as the founder of Story Play Media with the summit’s audience.

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ScripTing: Elevator Pitch & Logline

As I work to take storyplay.tv’s The Caddy Club to market, I’m sharing script development tips for movie makers to get an inside look at how I’m developing this Caribbean family feature.

One of my favourite parts of making movies and cartoons is writing the story. My first step in creating stories for the screen is to write a logline — one or two sentences which describe my story. Loglines help me record the main elements of my story to keep me on track during the writing process. As my story evolves and takes shape I return to my logline and tweak it. Loglines are also an important pitching tool so you’ll want to make sure you craft a strong one.

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Finding Our Fit in Family Content

When I started producing content under the Story Play banner I knew that I wanted to tell great stories for screens of all sizes, but I imagined that these stories might be wide in scope and genre. Of late, I’ve given into my natural inclination towards fun family-friendly video content, having learned from regional producers, film coaches, content providers, and independent research that there’s a significant dearth in kids and family content throughout the Caribbean region.

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Things We Love: Playing At Work

A colleague once shared a simple career planning strategy that has stayed with me over the years. “You either follow passion, or people,” he said. “But if you’re lucky you get to follow both.” What I took from his advice was this: Seek out opportunities to work with people who inspire you with their awesome vision and talent. Or look for work that you’re passionate about. If the stars align, you’ll be able to do something you’re excited about with people who make you better. At Story Play, we strive to integrate this wisdom through our philosophy of play.

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