Production Diary: Astro Motion 2025

Happy Friday! This is James from Astro Turtle Productions and I'm finally able to come up for some air after a productive week on Astro Motion 2025. Hope you've been having a good week :)

So far, the overall project has been going great and I'm very much looking forward to sharing our hard work with you soon. Maybe even by the end of the month!

This week for me started with a struggle that I picture as being very similar to tussling with an Alligator. That struggle of course is creating storyboards. I'm not the best at drawing by hand, so when creating them myself, I have to cobble together some images through Photoshop.

Thankfully, the images I was able to piece together were enough for my collaborator, Jeremy Asuncion from Selluloid Pictures, and so we were off and away into production for what we could proceed with.

The thing is, a couple ideas of mine require a live actor so we're going to have to cast for it and etc.... So, this is Astro Motion Part 1 for now.

Anyways, once we were on the same page with what we were getting ourselves into, it was time to make some movie magic happen. Thankfully, Jeremy is an expert and production wrapped ahead of schedule - and that includes doing stop motion animation for five sequences. Wowie!

You may be surprised to hear that it was none other than myself who animated the stop motion segments in so far as I moved the items and took the pictures. It was my first time trying something like this, but I think everything turned out pretty well.

After we wrapped production, we dove right into post. I took on the role of assembly and putting together the elements of each spec ad. I also organized the footage in the Premiere Pro project we would share. Jeremy has been taking on the role of handling anything needed in After Effects, applying polish, and finessing any motion graphics assets.

As of this blog post, we have a handful of Locked cuts and I'm also needing a break. We decided to take the weekend before our next deadline, and did I mention that I also financed a new car this week?

Below I'm just showing off some stills from our Goldfish cracker ad spec's storyboard. Until next time!

J: