Actually, if you look carefully, a lot of it is already there on the cave painting in Return. It’s the back story of it all that explains the crayons and the mythology of the kingdom. I do have an idea about the girl’s father when he was a boy. Now that the trilogy is complete and the box set is coming out, do you have plans ever to go back to the worlds from Journey? Books are a relatively solitary process, so it’s nice to have the chance for some collaboration. Jacob takes my temp track and scores original music based on the timing of the edit. It was a blast, though waiting for the perfect sunset took some patience!įor the music in all of my trailers, I work with Jacob Montague, a composer from the band Branches. I filmed the lanterns and books in our back yard with some fancy new camera equipment.
It’s a really fun part of the process for me, and I wanted to do something special to celebrate the release of the box set that was different than my animations from the trilogy. Thanks! I used to work in the film industry, so when the time came to promote Journey, I took what I knew of animation and film making and put it to use. Luckily I avoided any of that pressure – the paintings for Quest were finished by the time Journey published! Return was harder to figure out, but mostly because the story needed to work both as a stand alone story and a book end to the trilogy – in 40 wordless pages! Was it hard to follow up on that kind of success? Journey was your debut and landed in the book-world like a meteor. It was important to me that the story not turn into an ongoing series, but end as a succinct story with three purposeful acts, where Quest delves us deeper into the worlds of Journey and Return comes full circle to resolve the girl’s initial rift. At that point, I wrote out a synopsis of the final two books. This felt closer to life to me that the things we desire deep down don’t always pan out the way we might hope.Īt the same time there was this nagging question when the layouts were finished – What about the girl’s family? Will she ever be seen by them? Well before Journey published (as you know, it’s a long process from completion of artwork to final publication) I talked to my editor at Candlewick (Mary Lee Donovan) about extending the story into a trilogy to help finish the larger arc of the girl’s journey. Instead, she finds a way out of her loneliness through her imagination and the adventures and friends she makes along the way. When I was editing Journey, the one thing I didn’t have room for was a resolution for the girl’s initial (and significant) disconnect with her family. It’s such an honor and I’m so excited to see it come together. I am more than thrilled! I’ve always loved this sort of thing in the series that I follow, but I never imagined when I wrote Journey that it would grow into something like this. So, how does it feel to know there’s a box set for the Journey Trilogy?
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