The Babadook Pop Up Book - November 2015 Update

(NOTE: see links to our May, July, Sept & Oct updates below) View this email in your browser Hi everyone, November is upon us. So it’s time for our November Babadook book update, straight from our Babadook writer/director, Jennifer Kent.



Well we’ve had an exciting and productive time over here in Babadook book land.



We’ve seen the first round of colour proofs of all pages from Insight (our printers), as well as what’s called a ‘white dummy’, which is the whole book made up to show all the mechanisms working, but without any colour on it. The results are fantastic, but they’re not perfect yet, which they need to be. So we’re doing another round of colour proofs and white dummy before going to print. This is a normal part of the process and it all takes time. I can tell you now though the finished product is going to be beautiful. So please hang in there guys. Hi all,Well we’ve had an exciting and productive time over here in Babadook book land.We’ve seen the first round of colour proofs of all pages from Insight (our printers), as well as what’s called a ‘white dummy’, which is the whole book made up to show all the mechanisms working, but without any colour on it. The results are fantastic, but they’re not perfect yet, which they need to be. So we’re doing another round of colour proofs and white dummy before going to print. This is a normal part of the process and it all takes time. I can tell you now though the finished product is going to be beautiful. So please hang in there guys. I went through the colour proofs and white dummy with a fine tooth comb (with Babadook producer Kristina Ceyton in Sydney.) Then we sent the colour proofs to our illustrator Alex Juhasz, and the white dummy to our paper engineer Simon Arizpe in the US. They also had their notes, we jumped on the phone to Insight to discuss them and now the second set of proofs and dummy are underway! I’m in the US now and in two weeks we’ll have round two of the proofs and dummy delivered. I’ll get a chance to look over the final colour proofs with Alex Juhasz in person here in the US, which is an ideal scenario. Once they are approved, the books are going to print! YAY!!! Keep in mind that the printing will be reasonably quick, but then the book itself needs to be glued and put together by hand. So of course that is where the rest of our timeline gets eaten up. Then all those books are going to be hand packed and sent to various countries for delivery. However we are still committed to the early 2016 delivery, and at the moment we’re right on track.



I am so grateful to you for your patience with our beautiful books. I have very high standards, as do all of our creatives on this, so the process has been an involved one. But we are very close now. On behalf of all of us, we thank you for your support and I am excited to say you will be getting a book that I feel is well worth the wait.

Jen