VALUE BLiND was animated completely by hand.
That's how 2D animators animate-- by flipping rapidly between frames.
After animating a section or a scene, timing out the animation on a pencil
test machine (LunchBox)
is the next step. It's important to get good timing down, otherwise the
most frightening character of your film may end up looking like a jiggly
waddling penguin if shot on 1's.
I did multiple animation tests in Flash to practice the movements of the rats and birds.
Thug throwing bucket of bird-paint
Rat running across
Rat running forward
I was working with three layers for the rat scene. One layer was the painter, the second layer was two rats on the right and the third layer was three rats on the left. I had to take video of my pencil tests, download the video onto a computer, then overlap all my videos in After Effects with Multiply applied to each one so I could see how all the animations overlapped each other. I could then see where the rats coincided with each other and needed to be re-animated. The reason I worked on different layers was so I could have all the timing accurate for each important element (in this case, rats and the painter).
VALUE BLiND was completely
boarded and timed out in Flash CS3 before any actual animation was done.
And, here's the massive heap of paper that went into making this film!
...And I honestly can't believe no one made this joke the whole time I worked
on this film. Enjoy!
