I figured the Freezer Truck Morgue would be a perfect application for the ZOE Depth I tried on several other shots. Zoe allows to the camera to truck forward. The other depth maps I have used only allow for parallax when the camera trucks side to side. So with this shot the camera trucks forward towards the prisoners who are working in the background.
One worker is tightening a strap around the midsection of the corpse and the other simply places his hand on the corpse, probably in preparation to move it, him, her. Figuring out the verb is the first step towards making the action make sense. What is seen her is the very rough animation just to get a feel for what motion will work over the 26 frames.
The first pass at the animation had far too much motion, so the action felt rushed. I had to throw out keys and simplify the action to slow it down. The feet on the one prisoner are going to be held cells which is why the feet are not drawn.
A major issue with this animation is that the prisoners are in stripped jump suits. Stripes are always a challenge to animate so the final animation will take some time to clean up.
This morning COVID Dystopia was accepted to be screened in another film festival with animated flames and confetti on Film Freeway. The proposed screening date however was in 2020 long before my film had been created. An e-mail to the film festival producer conformed that Film Freeway had simply gone rogue. The acceptance was a glitch in The Matrix.