What is the film about?

Set in a prison for criminally poor writers, Writer’s Block follows a gang of cons who get ahold of the script to their own lives and attempt to re-write it in order to make their escape.

A little background information...

We felt like prison movies were an area we liked a lot but hadn’t really explored yet. We thought something about a character trying to escape from the film itself in some way would give us a chance to play around with the narrative structure of the film but still have a fun straight-forward story.

How was the film made?

It was animated in Flash and then comped together using After Effects. Background artist, Adam Davis, worked in Photoshop and Artrage. The bulk of animation took place over about a month, during which co-director Tom Gran was working with another animator, Todd Setter. but after that Tom spent a few months doing clean up, colour, adding in all the tattoos.