While at Annecy, he gave a presentation on his new short, Day and Night. The short is brilliant; short and sweet, to be precise. Without giving too much away, it deals with two characters, Day and Night, who encounter each other and explore their differences. Watching it in 3D is awesome too. The short made really good use of depth of field, and the black, thick like velvet, acts like a curtain with a cut out through which to view to different states of Day and Night, putting the situations, the colours and the extra depth centre stage; Teddy described it as "looking through a keyhole" and seeing one world represented in two states simultaneously.
While talking about his concept work for the short, Teddy mentioned how he would draw a squiggle on a page and then make something out of it. The examples he showed us of some of his squiggles were just fantastic; proper little illustrations in themselves, but from very humble beginnnings. Simple, but totally rewarding. This got me thinking.
A little later that week, a friend told me Teddy was signing in the Bonlieu, so I went down and joined the queue. When I got to the front of the line, Teddy was signing Day and Night posters, each with a little Day and Night shaking hands or smiling, or whatever. I also asked him if he wouldn't mind making something from my squiggle I'd drawn while in the queue? His face lit up and he was like, "sure, yeah!" He asked for two different elements, so I said ice cream (there's a lot of that in Annecy) and... a bus driver. Random. And he set about making a little drawing out of this totally random squiggle. It was awesome, just watching him work out where he'd draw the different elements, what kind of a story was forming as he drew, and just his excitement over something so simple, even after having been signing for over an hour! So Teddy, if you're reading this, thank you so much! It's so awesome.
"He's trying to balance the ice cream and eat it while driving his bus!"
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