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ABOUTA few years ago, I came across a film called Zombie vs Mardi Gras. I was taken with the blunt wrongness of that matchup, and amused myself by trying to imagine possible sequels. What would the Zombie fight next, after defeating a religious holiday? The Renaissance? Illiteracy? Hydrogen? The title seemed to be committing a category error, and I thought it was hilarious. Unrelated to that, I had a film idea that wasn't moving very quickly. It was for a complicated animation, and I didn't know a thing about the field. So I decided to teach myself animation by animating a small story, simply. But I couldn't think of any simple stories, so I concentrated long and hard, trying to come up with one. While all of this was floating around in the back of my mind, I was playing cars and dinosaurs with my nephew Samuel, age 3. Sam had a motorcycle in his hand, I had a velociraptor, and a simple film idea was born - "Velocipede vs Velociraptor". I spent November of 2002 making "Velocipede", and I learned a huge number of things to never do again. I finished it in time for the annual FAVA Super 8 Challenge, and it showed at their Christmas party. Folks from the Edmonton Comedy Arts Festival were there, and decided to program it as part of their Funny on Film section. That screening earned me my first paycheque as a filmmaker, which I spent on socks and underwear.
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