Frank Forrestall meets Moby Dick

 My brother Frank is a very talented animation artist, and for the past few months has been working with the 3-D animation team doing some of the special effects for a new Moby Dick movie, starring William Hurt as Captain Ahab and Ethan Hawk as Starbuck. This past week Frank was describing working on a 3_D Computer generated  (CG) model that will stand in for a scene for the film that was far too dangerous for an actor to fully create: Captain Ahab's final confrontation with the whale.
Frank is working out of a temporary studio quarters fora few months in downtown Halifax. The film was shot last summer in the town of Lunenberg, which stood in for the town of Nantucket, where the book "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville was set.
Although Frank enjoys working on his own independent projects in his studio, working with this same team of animators he has worked with in the past (on kids shows like Poko) is something he loves doing. The comraderie of "working as a team is a lot of fun", Frank said.
--Monica Forrestall