Animating over live action in Photoshop is something I am used to doing, so the process of doing this was really enjoyable. I took this as an excuse to be creative and to have fun with it. The first section I animated was the scene below, where different outfits gradually drop down onto all of us. This was really fun, because I decided to try and make everybody's clothing completely different. It was really refreshing and exciting to be working in this wacky, geometric sort of style for a change.
There was a section in this film, where Molly had already begun adding some digital animation to the closeups of the faces, so I carried on with this by carrying on and finishing off the designs she had started, and then made them change into something new, which is what we agreed on.
Sharing of Work
Once Emma had completed the editing for the Stop-Motion, she decided that she was happy to start working on the animation for the Reading film. This was because, at this point Molly and I were still animating, so we had nothing to give Emma to edit, and also the animation itself was taking longer than expected.
We knew that it was taking a good while to get through, because we wanted to draw each frame individually, in order to give the animation a "boiling" effect. We felt this would give the patterns and shapes more life, and would also make them seem more separate to the live action.
We wanted to have an open flow of work between each film, so we would often share the files over Google Drive, which would allow us to edit each other's work, we thought having this option would not only be more collaborative, but it would potentially make each animation better.
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