Little Bits Of Paper

I’m back to animating.

Not much else in my life has been resolve, but I am back to animating. Well, that’s something at least.

So, this week I have started to work on the secondary animation for sequence one and five – the void. Somehow that seems apropos, but I digress. What I’m doing is filling the space with all the floating pages of the script, and honestly it looks really good (if I do say so myself).

What this entails is a lot of tedious work. I have to draw all the paper (with writing on it and without), scan all the images, clean them up, bring them into After Effects and animate them in multiple compositions (for length). If that sounds like a lot, you are correct. Every piece of paper has to move and rotate, and it needs to be the right length for the shot it goes into. Some of these shots are incredibly long as well.

It’s dull, boring, and tedious work. But, it looks beautiful when it’s done.

I think that’s the metaphor for this film. Well, stay tuned…