Including fast, slow, off the page and metamorphosis.
I chose to use hands because this still runs with my theme of Burrough's hands, they were to sway slowly from side to side then get hit by an arrow that moves fast, from an explosive firework that grew larger in scale and accompanied by a square that turned into a rectangle along the page.
At first I found it difficult to get my head around, the idea that 12 frames only lasts one second. I think we over estimated how much we can fit into one second and maybe should have made it more simple. However it has give me a good idea of how to place things on the page and think about compositions. Animation is something that I feel will take a while to get my head around because I struggle to imagine how something should look or will look until I do it. I am also still coming to terms with repeating my drawings, I find repetition quite challenging.
I kind of want to keep it simple at the minute maybe a hand opening and closing or I liked the idea of the syringe in the video I watched by Valerie Pirson ' Pistache '
I love the aesthetic of these pieces and I think this is due to the materials used. Acetate seems a really good idea
I took influence from the syringe with what looks like medication going down it to create my own and see how it turns out
When looking back over my work I had to come up with an idea for an animation that would tie into Burroughs, maybe use some motifs I'd previously looked at. From influence from Pistache with the syringe I got thinking about heroin travelling up veins in the arm or maybe using the hand as this was a motif I had explored quite a lot. I thought of a hand or arm with veins slowly appearing and then the veins either turning into a quote or having heroin run up the veins in a different colour. This would be a hand drawn animation. Another idea was to have a hand with heroin powder inside slowly tilting and the heroin pouring out, then forming something to do with death like maybe a skull or having little figures drowning in the powder. This would be something 3D I could generate myself maybe with talc or salt.
In order to move forward I need to experiment more with 3D animation and how different materials come across on camera.
Dragonframe & After Effects - Notes
After Effects screenshots
Animating Burroughs - hand generated animation ideas
I then thought for my final animation I could expand on this by drawing the hand moving to the side and then combining physical objects such as talt or talc to pour out of the hands and have hand drawn figures within them.
Combining text : I was thinking of an interesting way to combine text into my drawings; maybe with a quote or just words associated.
I made thumbnails of ideas for my drawn animation there are only 35 here but I guessed that most of these would take up more than one slide and take longer to generate but this is a general idea of what I want to achieve. A hand growing, with veins growing up the arm into the hand. A coloured heroin will then travel up the veins I am thinking possibly a dark yellow colour. The hand then closes and re-opens with the heroin exploding out. I could turn the heroin into text but I am just going to see how I get on I don't want to over complicate it at this stage. I chose the hand arm and veins as this sticks with my motifs that I earlier explored.
Hand drawn animation test drawings :
I tested out using the peg bar and how I was going to compose my images by just doing 7 quick frames
After effects lesson 2 - Screenshots
Notes
Dragonframe experimentation :
Background
I incorporated this grainy background to compliment the aesthetic of the piece
Peer review
This gave me a better understanding of a direction to go with the animation. The guys agreed that the work best suited my concept and the aesthetic worked well. They agreed with me that next time I could use acetate and ink. I am thinking of having ink coming out of the bottom of the syringe and people drowning in the ink to show heroin taking over peoples lives.
Hand drawn animation :
With my hand drawn animation I have experienced a couple of problems when opening it into After Effects. Photographing it in Dragon frame was easy and I actually really enjoyed the experience, playing it back and finally seeing things come together. However with After Effects it hasn't came across quite how I imagined. I asked the technician to sit down with me and help to edit some of the things I was unhappy with. For example I drew my images out portrait and needed to rotate the whole animation landscape. I also noticed my images had crop marks showing up within them and the colour was quite grey in the background. I played around with the scale of the piece zooming in on the text in areas and slowing down the pace. In order to slow certain areas of the animation and speed up others I split them into different sections. This meant the hand would appear pretty slow growing, with veins then appearing pretty fast and veins flipping out exploding from the hands. However the text needs to be read pretty slow in order for you to understand what it says so I slowed that part down.
So it's a working progress for me so far, I've edited the images in Photoshop playing with the levels and brightness to make them whiter, and erased all crop marks along with any other unwanted marks.
I've also found that I can't upload the video to my blog, so I made a vimeo account - this also failed.
Editing the background also means I will be able to rotate the sequence portrait and it work as a landscape piece.
After effects workshop
We had another workshop learning more about how the images can move along the page with motion blur and auto orient meaning our images move along a path more realistically. I thought this was really useful because it makes it flow better. Another useful thing was the Adjustment layer whereby You can apply your effects to all layers. This is something I could have done with my animation rather than doing it in Photoshop!
For my animation I also need to decide on what kind of sound I would like to add. I was thinking of an interview with Burroughs but I don't know if this would be too obvious. I then looked to see if there was any music that had been made already that incorporated his voice. There were, but they did not suit the mood. I want something quite creepy. I was looking at drug music and they all seem to be dance tunes really upbeat. I then looked at more horror style music and came across some creepy music box stuff that I think would maybe suit it better.
Contextual References
Animation
Alan Baker
Collaging photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXbKlT6PWPU
Katharine Asher
Hand generated
These seemed more realistic to what I could achieve, pretty basic but lovely concept of santa throwing beers to all the different countries. Included text too
More of a digital approach
Experimentation of media
Here I tried out acetate and ink as a way of pro ducting the syringe and heroin entering the animation rather than paper as I'd tried out previously. This will show up better in photographs. I need to use a different pen to draw the syringe onto the acetate as the one I used was a medium and was far too thick.
I then tried to look at different ways I could show figures drowning, this was just a really rough idea (stick men - the shame) but i was just getting an idea of whether the ink would be enough coverage over the pen (it wasn't)
I added a little bit of black to the yellow ink as I felt it was far too vibrant before
Reference imagery that helped me visualise how I want the heroin to pour out of the hands and how I could show people drowning in it
Thumbs of how I want the animation to pan out
PLAN OF WHAT I NEED TO DO NEXT :
I have looked into how channels advertise documentaries as my animation is based on a documentary of the life of Burroughs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PFRIGx69bw
I was thinking of ways I could encorporate text and obviously I will need to add the name of the documentary and when it will be aired. I think I will start with a quote from him, animation and then the name of the documentary, channel date and time at the end. This will be animated showing my hand writing it out as my handwriting will be styled to reflect burroughs.
Writing like a junkie or writing like burroughs?
Ive had a lot of consideration over the text I want to use. I know I want to do something hand generated because I feel I am capable of pulling this off succesfully. I've always been known for having nice handwiritng, and I can forge other peoples handwriting quite easily so I'd like to give it a go. The way I have been exploring it I feel reflects that of a diary entry kind of feel. I exaggerate all highs and lows such as l's and y's to make it quite scratchy, narrow and thin. I think this supports the aesthetic of the piece. However when I researched burroughs handwriting it's quite small and more broad. If you imagine the handwriting I've been doing looks portrait, burroughs would be landscape.
So I am unsure which to go with, my own take or mimic his?
After my peer review I really had a think about my advice given that maybe it doesn't reflect Burroughs enough. This is a documentary based on Burroughs life, and I feel right now my printed pictures are saying more about that than my animation will. I am hoping that the sound I use and the quotes will reflect him more. Also the fact that I am writing the quotes out and animating the pen writing reflects him being a writer. Maybe using his handwriting will be a good idea.
A BIG CHANGE
I decided I needed to make a change. The feedback given to me about the quote coming out of the hand they felt didn't really make sense and was a little irrelevant. It would also be far too complicated to turn a quote into the yellow ink pouring down because I'd have to write the quote out in ink and I don't think that will come across very well.
After looking into more quotes from Burroughs I came across a lovely one including a centipede and it triggered off some thoughts. Centipedes are a theme in his book and may make the animation a little creepier. I started to thumb some ideas
I will create a centipede from the veins that explode from the hands. The frame will then shift to just the head of the centipede and it's antennas. They will close together to form one single antenna that then thickens out and forms the pouring of the ink into a pool.
(add more thumbs)
This makes more sense I think and will be easier to do because the veins will already be in yellow ink, and the centipede could be yellow, and the heroin pool will be yellow ink also. Rather than swapping my medias around.
This is the sequence in bullet form. After thumbnailing I am up to 100 frames so far :
- hand holding pen enters screen
- pen starts to write
- writes out a quote
- quote lasts approx 15 slides depending on how many words
- one frame of the whole of the quote together
- quote fades out in 3 slides
- hand drawn hand appears
- 6 slides it takes for the hand to be drawn out
- syringe appears top right corner
- takes 4 slides to enter and pierces the vein in arm
- takes 4 slides to leave as the hand jerks backwards
- 3 slides of veins growing out
- zooms in on to the veins only
- veins turn into centipede legs
- centipede body grows from left to right
- takes 10 slides to grow
- zooms in on the antennas on the head of centipede
- they close together in 7 frames
- they form just one antenna
- the antenna thickens out
- it shifts to the top left hand corner
- yellow ink forms a pouring motion
- pours out a pool that fills 3/4 of the frame
- bubbles appear in the water
- hands start to emerge as if drowning
- sink back into the water and bubbles appear again
- water is still and fills up the frame in 3 slides
- hand appears back on to the screen
- writes out the name of the documentary, time date and channel
Questions to ask ahead of my progress tutorial
- How can I cheat? How can I make life a bit easier for myself? Cut some corners?
- What font of text should I use?
- Am I over-complicating it?
- Does it reflect Burroughs enough?
- Will red and black ink look okay for the printed pictures?
PLAN OF WHAT TO DO NEXT:
- Need to look into what sound I want to use
- Decide on a quote and font - see how many frames it will take up
- Draw out exact amount of frames
- Do a test piece of writing out the quote as one single animation
- Turn veins into centipede. Centipede into pool - more experimentation of this
- Experiment collaging the hands appearing drowning rather than drawing them out as it may save time
- Decide on a background for all frames - needs to be closest to the yellow colour
Sound Exploration
Need to pick a youtube/vimeo clip, convert to mp3. Upload file into After effects and drag into the sequence. Can fade music in and out. Have layers of two sounds at once
Olay Line - Suzanne Deakin
The music here seems to suit the movement of the line with the high and low pitch, the pace changes. I don't know if this was done purposely or just seemed to fit by chance but it certainly made me think of how I could match music to the movement of my piece. Maybe speed up/slow down the pace of certain areas of my animation to match the sound.
Matthew Young - Money
Here Matthew uses speech over his animation, which gave me the idea of using maybe an interview with Burroughs or a reading of his novel. However, a reading of his novel doesn't say much about his life so I need to chose something that reflects him as a person.
https://vimeo.com/70249693
Reading from the threepenny opera - what keeps mankind alive?
His dull tone over a quite playful tune. A playful tune might be quite creepy
Oliver Jeffers
I looked at him when thinking about handwriting the text, myself illustration through text.
I like how he has crossed words out and included the mistakes, I might use this for showing Burrough's writing, just to mix it up a little bit and show an erratic state of mind. Rushing, with thoughts too fast to get down on paper correctly.
Progress Tutorial
After showing Eleanor my thumbs for my animation I asked her how I could cut it down, make it less complicated and not have to draw everything by hand. In my test animation it took 40 frames to draw out the hand and veins and took a few days to create. That would just be one little part of my plan for this animation so I felt it was far too complicated.
Eleanor asked me which parts of the animation thumbs were my favourite. I decided I may cut out the hand animation completely; starting with the veins exploding into legs.
Eleanor really liked the idea of me animating myself writing as if I were Burroughs.We decided on this being the main focus of the animation, fading in and out.
She also said that it could be a journey of the text turning into a line that turns into a drawing and so on.
I am going to include both speech from Burroughs and music as my sounds, and play a few at one time to make it more mysterious. Overall I will concentrate on putting the animation together and the mood and tone rather than lots of lovely drawings that take forever to do.
Inital ideas now go as follows:
Shorter quotes
I need to pick one of these for the beginning of my animation that sums up Burroughs and which would suit a documentary based on his life:
I love this video for Naked Lunch as it includes a reading of the novel from Burroughs but also other sounds overlapping such as music and sounds made by females. The video itself is really dark and has a combination of layers and movements, a really nice aesthetic.
I like this text for Burroughs also as it looks like a diary entry kind of feel. The white on black background looks nice too.
After showing Eleanor my thumbs for my animation I asked her how I could cut it down, make it less complicated and not have to draw everything by hand. In my test animation it took 40 frames to draw out the hand and veins and took a few days to create. That would just be one little part of my plan for this animation so I felt it was far too complicated.
Eleanor asked me which parts of the animation thumbs were my favourite. I decided I may cut out the hand animation completely; starting with the veins exploding into legs.
Eleanor really liked the idea of me animating myself writing as if I were Burroughs.We decided on this being the main focus of the animation, fading in and out.
She also said that it could be a journey of the text turning into a line that turns into a drawing and so on.
I am going to include both speech from Burroughs and music as my sounds, and play a few at one time to make it more mysterious. Overall I will concentrate on putting the animation together and the mood and tone rather than lots of lovely drawings that take forever to do.
Inital ideas now go as follows:
- Hand comes in to animate quote - shortest quote possible
- quote runs on a line
- line turns into veins
- veins create centipede legs
- centipede grows
- antennas form one line
- line runs on
- creates another quote
- line creates syringe then runs on
- creates the time channel title of show
meanwhile sound runs throughout and backgrounds change fading in and out
Practicing Burroughs handwriting
Shorter quotes
I need to pick one of these for the beginning of my animation that sums up Burroughs and which would suit a documentary based on his life:
- I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing
- Nothing is true, everything is permitted
- How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity
- Junk is the ideal product. The ultimate merchandise
- Hustlers of the world : There is one mark you cannot beat, the mark inside
- Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
- You must learn to live alone in silence
- The face of evil is always the face of total need
- Kill the bitch and write a book. That's what I did
I will use sound throughout the whole of the animation. 30 seconds long. I will also try to layer over some creepy music if it fits.
I am looking at interviews or clips of Burroughs talking as it could act as part of the documentary, as if what he is saying will be included within the documentary.
I like this one about dreams because it seems irrelevant and out there, making you wonder what the documentary will entail. Previously visited in earlier research and translated within my motif work; Burroughs speaks of dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4KJkqmIBY
I need to turn this into MP3 and add to after effects. I will use the basic background of clouds moving that the technicicans set up for us in our workshop just as a tester of how to use sound. Cloud and dreams will mesh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbx1f43Y9A
I like the part ' is everybody in, the ceremony's about to begin' but I think the sound in the background is far too upbeat and I've tried searching for just him speaking that part but couldn't find it.
Pen dilemmas
So Eleanor told me to think about what kind of pen Burroughs would use I went out and bought an expensive fountain pen only to realise I'd bought blue ink for it! When I needed black.. I had a play around with it anyway but I think I might use a black sharpie
Figuring out how many frames it will take me to write. This is 18 but I took away about 7 that were blurry as it's hard to photograph and write at the same time hence why I need a Dragonframe buddy with me when I come to animate. My hand does look really old though which fits!
Adding sound
I tried to convert the 'dreams' video to MP3 on http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ but it was blocked for it's content. I then tried 'Is everybody in' video and that worked. I played it and decided the section I would use was from 50 seconds to 1 minute 25. This includes screams and his speech as well as music. Also cant quite figure out how to add the music to the after effects file need to ask about this
I finally got the dreams soundclip to convert to mp3
New thumbnailed plan
Centipede
I tried to erase some of the centipede to show a progression of the centipede growing
Putting the centipede into After Effects
Experimenting writing digitally
In order to show the growth of the writing appearing I had to write it all out then erase word for word starting at the end and screenshot as I went along. The screenshots saved backwards so I then had to open them up into Photoshop.
I then had to rename each file. I numbered them 1- onwards so that they would then appear in order and opened them up in after effects. I did the same with the centipede drawing in order to show the centipede growing (as above).
I had to slow this down quite a lot as it was too fast so I changed the frame rate to 10 frames per second on this one.
This is the result - Centipede growing
I then decided to experiment drawing the line growing from the antennas of the centipede. Again with the same technique of erasing from back to front and renaming the files in order.
This seems a good idea and simpler than doing by hand but I feel there must be an easier way to do it than erasing and screenshotting each frame. I am going to ask for more help with this.
I had a go at animating this in After Effects
I spoke with someone in class and asked how they were going about their digital animation and they gave me a really good idea. I knew there must be a simpler way than what I was going about it!
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When I came to do this myself, every time I added a new year it was a duplicate layer so whatever I drew, appeared on every frame which I didn't want. I spent hours going through the settings trying to figure it out. Until I hid the first layer and from then on it worked!!
I then had an issue with writing on screen how I wanted it. I needed to zoom in to make sure that it was running smoothly but then when I zoomed out the writing was far too small and didn't fit the screen
Basic outline of text and centipede
Centipede coloured
I then put my animation into after effects to figure out how I can move the frame along to then show the antenna line growing. I created an anchor point at the end of the antenna and moved the frame to the left.
I may have to create multiple animations of the different sequences and add them all into after effects for it to flow properly; not sure this is something I need to speak to a tutor or technician about
I feel so much more confident creating my animation in Photoshop than by hand and After Effects it seems much easier for me and I am so glad that I was shown this technique it has saved me a lot of time
Syringe
Adding two animations together in after effects
Kill the bitch writing
Name of the programme
Adding veins
Leg movement
In order to get the legs to move I painted the background colour over the legs then onion-skinned the layer by changing the opacity and re-drew the legs for each frame in a different direction
Putting it all into After Effects
http://youtu.be/OquQfRHWfEA
This animation was too fast so would need slowing down in areas however it is already at 36 seconds.
I decided to cut out some of the writing in order to give me more time to play around with the pace
http://youtu.be/3d1RCNuLr_o
FINAL DECISION ON MUSIC
Tried using creepy music box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mLY8vX3L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRQPCvJdmI
Chosen one
Love this one as it includes lots of other weird sounds and makes you feel like your head is going to explode when you listen
Maybe if i played it from 47 seconds where it is really intense then ends on the creepy music box dying out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fUFmjqXZo
The second bit of sound I want to layer over the top is an extract from an interview with Burroughs where he says 'The damage to health is minimal' and the interviewer adds 'But it has done things to your soul?' Where Burroughs then giggles. I think this would be quite creepy alongside the music box tune and could also act as part of the documentary.
I spoke to Mike Flower (technician) who helped me adjust the volume of each sound clip and to loop the legs of the centipede so that they run longer. I also split some layers into new sections and stretched the time of them - in particular the writing so that it played long enough to be read
Final Outcome
On youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV1VTyJC-Kk&feature=youtu.be
I am looking at interviews or clips of Burroughs talking as it could act as part of the documentary, as if what he is saying will be included within the documentary.
I like this one about dreams because it seems irrelevant and out there, making you wonder what the documentary will entail. Previously visited in earlier research and translated within my motif work; Burroughs speaks of dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4KJkqmIBY
I need to turn this into MP3 and add to after effects. I will use the basic background of clouds moving that the technicicans set up for us in our workshop just as a tester of how to use sound. Cloud and dreams will mesh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbx1f43Y9A
I like the part ' is everybody in, the ceremony's about to begin' but I think the sound in the background is far too upbeat and I've tried searching for just him speaking that part but couldn't find it.
Pen dilemmas
So Eleanor told me to think about what kind of pen Burroughs would use I went out and bought an expensive fountain pen only to realise I'd bought blue ink for it! When I needed black.. I had a play around with it anyway but I think I might use a black sharpie
Figuring out how many frames it will take me to write. This is 18 but I took away about 7 that were blurry as it's hard to photograph and write at the same time hence why I need a Dragonframe buddy with me when I come to animate. My hand does look really old though which fits!
Adding sound
I tried to convert the 'dreams' video to MP3 on http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ but it was blocked for it's content. I then tried 'Is everybody in' video and that worked. I played it and decided the section I would use was from 50 seconds to 1 minute 25. This includes screams and his speech as well as music. Also cant quite figure out how to add the music to the after effects file need to ask about this
I finally got the dreams soundclip to convert to mp3
New thumbnailed plan
- Hand enters the screen drawing out a quote
- The quote reads ' Kill the bitch and write a book... that's what I did '
- The quote turns into a line
- The line turns into a centipede
- The antennas of the centipede turns back into a line
- The line spells out a word
- The frame zooms out and the word is surrounded by other words that are part of another quote
- The quote gets cut up by the hand
- Zooms in to one word that's been cut out
- Word turns into a line
- Line forms the information of the date, time, channel of the show
Centipede
Putting the centipede into After Effects
Experimenting writing digitally
In order to show the growth of the writing appearing I had to write it all out then erase word for word starting at the end and screenshot as I went along. The screenshots saved backwards so I then had to open them up into Photoshop.
I then had to rename each file. I numbered them 1- onwards so that they would then appear in order and opened them up in after effects. I did the same with the centipede drawing in order to show the centipede growing (as above).
I had to slow this down quite a lot as it was too fast so I changed the frame rate to 10 frames per second on this one.
This is the result - Centipede growing
I then decided to experiment drawing the line growing from the antennas of the centipede. Again with the same technique of erasing from back to front and renaming the files in order.
This seems a good idea and simpler than doing by hand but I feel there must be an easier way to do it than erasing and screenshotting each frame. I am going to ask for more help with this.
I spoke with someone in class and asked how they were going about their digital animation and they gave me a really good idea. I knew there must be a simpler way than what I was going about it!
- Open Photoshop and start file as film and video.
- Then in size click PAL widescreen square pixel.
- Drag away the blue lines from the frame
- Window - Timeline
- Bottom of screen - create new timeline
- Click three squares in bottom left
- Add new layers
- Can change the opacity of the last layer to onion skin it
- Create animation and file - export - render
- Saves as an MP4
This is so much more helpful as I can create the animation in photoshop rather than drag them into after effects
Thumbnailing final idea for animation using this method:
When I came to do this myself, every time I added a new year it was a duplicate layer so whatever I drew, appeared on every frame which I didn't want. I spent hours going through the settings trying to figure it out. Until I hid the first layer and from then on it worked!!
This is experimenting with writing, but I obviously won't use this style :
I then had an issue with writing on screen how I wanted it. I needed to zoom in to make sure that it was running smoothly but then when I zoomed out the writing was far too small and didn't fit the screen
Centipede coloured
I then put my animation into after effects to figure out how I can move the frame along to then show the antenna line growing. I created an anchor point at the end of the antenna and moved the frame to the left.
I may have to create multiple animations of the different sequences and add them all into after effects for it to flow properly; not sure this is something I need to speak to a tutor or technician about
I feel so much more confident creating my animation in Photoshop than by hand and After Effects it seems much easier for me and I am so glad that I was shown this technique it has saved me a lot of time
Syringe
Adding two animations together in after effects
Kill the bitch writing
Name of the programme
Adding veins
Leg movement
In order to get the legs to move I painted the background colour over the legs then onion-skinned the layer by changing the opacity and re-drew the legs for each frame in a different direction
Putting it all into After Effects
http://youtu.be/OquQfRHWfEA
This animation was too fast so would need slowing down in areas however it is already at 36 seconds.
I decided to cut out some of the writing in order to give me more time to play around with the pace
http://youtu.be/3d1RCNuLr_o
FINAL DECISION ON MUSIC
Tried using creepy music box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mLY8vX3L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRQPCvJdmI
Chosen one
Love this one as it includes lots of other weird sounds and makes you feel like your head is going to explode when you listen
Maybe if i played it from 47 seconds where it is really intense then ends on the creepy music box dying out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fUFmjqXZo
The second bit of sound I want to layer over the top is an extract from an interview with Burroughs where he says 'The damage to health is minimal' and the interviewer adds 'But it has done things to your soul?' Where Burroughs then giggles. I think this would be quite creepy alongside the music box tune and could also act as part of the documentary.
I spoke to Mike Flower (technician) who helped me adjust the volume of each sound clip and to loop the legs of the centipede so that they run longer. I also split some layers into new sections and stretched the time of them - in particular the writing so that it played long enough to be read
Final Outcome
On youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV1VTyJC-Kk&feature=youtu.be
I am pleased with the outcome of the animation because I have continued with the colour scheme of dull greens yellows browns to represent heroin, I have included initial ideas still and tried to represent the text as if it were Burroughs writing himself, with use of scribbles. This reflects what I learnt at the earlier stages about line work, dots, thicker lines and thin. I have also used motifs still from earlier in the module such as the syringe and hands.
I would have liked to add more collage to the animation and included my hand animating had i more time. If I done this again I would try create more interesting compositions and make the frame flow from one side to the other on after effects using the position tool. I am really pleased with the sounds I chose I think these reflect Burroughs well but maybe don't suit my animation as well as they would suit something a little darker. I wanted to keep it playful still with the music box and the laughing keep it light hearted. I think it works well as an advertisement for a documentary though which is what the brief asked.
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