First it all started with the task of creating an inspiring, meaningful, and moving animation. We felt we needed a grasping story, one that meant something to us and one we knew audiences could relate too. Right away we began searching for the perfect video topic. Shortly we came up with the idea of making a dog movie animation, with an original music composition. However, we felt there was still something missing. At the time, John Kim had been creating a painting for a fallen soldier. We decided on filling in the missing piece to our video with another character, a Canadian Soldier. That's what concluded the final contribution to our movie. We then rounded and shaped our animation, during post-production, by creating a relationship between the two characters, thus concluding our thoughts. The message at the end of the video "Dedicated to the Fallen Men and Women, Veterans, and ones serving in the Canadian Army", is what inspired us to create the video, one that sent us into the process of creating this movie. Now having a dog, a Soldier and a message, we began animating our seven month project. About five months into the production of the video, we created a happy, and sad original music composition in which concluded the last two months. Pre-production started July 23rd to November 1st, 2009. The Animation started November 11th and went to February 21st, 2010. The Original Music took from November 21st to January 28th and "Salute, my Collared Pal" was Created.
