Yesterday I animated Hazmat Hamlet, The Maskless Doc and this scene, The Tipping Point. This scene involved the most work. For this scene which is less than a second long, 130 individual drawings were needed. I used a new feature in Callipeg which allows to group multiple layers together. Prior to this I tended to merge layers together. This however meant that changes were harder to do.
For every character there is a drawing layer and a paint layer. After seeing this scene in the film next to together scenes, I found that the hazmat suits are not as bright a yellow in this painting. Today, I will go back into the scene and open the groups and add a bright yellow wash over each of the hazmat suits. Before that would have involved destroying the line work.
Today I might start animating walking zombies. That is a challenge since they would not walk normally. Each zombie would walk with a unique limp or shuffle. The beach scene is the one that I would start with since the beautify woman walks so quickly away from the crowd of zombies. Once I start animating zombies, I have opened Pandora’s box.