Shaun Goes Potty

It's wonderful to finally see Shaun Goes Potty transform from story sketches into full animation. I worked as a story artist on this episode from Shaun the Sheep, which was an amazing experience. In terms of story issues, this was a difficult episode to work on with a huge script crammed to bursting with just too many good ideas!

One of those was a dream sequence of Bitzer being a legendary pool champ, which was a lot of fun to board, but in the end was rightly cut to give Shaun and Bitzer more screen time together.

I remember looking at this episode in story reel form with the director, Chris Sadler and an editor and it came to aprox10 minutes. At which point we asked - what is the story really about. The resulting changes, which many story artists and great minds worked on, see the various location shifts changes to one which allows screen time to concentrate on the entertainment of a terrific concept. I had a ball, to pardon the pun, working out some of the visual humour of Shaun and Bitzer challenging each other to a game of pool. Catch it now on the BBC iplayer!