Rendering is the most painful aspect of creating a film.I tried to render the fill length of the film twice tonight but both renders froze about one third of the way into the process. Anyway above is a single shot broken into it’s two components. The original painting and a depth map. When these two are combined in After Effects a 2.5 dimensional image results with parallax. Since most of the shots in this film are less than a second long the depth maps are often enough to give some depth and a feeling of motion.
I am doing some hand drawn animation but for instance with this shot I don’t think it will be necessary to animate the tails. I have about 16 days to finish work on the fist edit. I managed to complete 12 shots today and at that pace I should easily finish on time and then I will go back to refine some shots and add animation where it is needed.
I had one full day where production stopped because Premiere Pro was erasing past saved versions of the edit. It made no sense to continue if each days work would disappear into the digital ether. After having cleared the cache, I am now only working on one file and not renaming it each day. Something about saving a “file as” caused the program to glitch out. Online research found that this has been a know problem with Adobe Premiere Pro since 2017 and they still have not resolved the issue. I am limping by with the edit I have rather that get another video editing program since I am too far into the process. All files are being backed up to an online service no so the program can not overwrite them or erase them. I am spending far too much time trying to resolve technical issues that are outside my control.
Oh, for any guys out there, COVID damages your sperm.