I was debating weather this shot needed to be animated. The slaughterhouse workers are just standing around. I finally decided the pig needed to swing to garner some attention. The hazmat worker drops his hand to his side and the pig swings as a result.
I fully animated the arm swing, but with the pig I used some transformation tools in Callipeg that I have seldom touched. I set the rotation point and simply set several keys for the swing. Again the shot is only about 27 frames so I downplayed the animation so the swing wasn’t highly erratic. This was my first time using a graph editor in Callipeg to control the slow ins and slow outs of the swing. I rather like this feature and plan to play with it some more.
I am animating about three scenes a day now so the film is in full production. Each night I also research a film festival to submit the film to. My plan right now is to keep submitting to a different festival each day until I reach 300. Maybe 10% might accept the film. I need to harden myself to the inevitable rejections that are to come.