Yesterday I animated two more monkeys in COVID Dystopia. I had to completely redo the animation on one monkey because the Callipeg program refused to allow me to erase. Instead of erasing the program would replace the element with a color. Initially the eraser would work but when I scrolled back in the timeline it would reappear as a color block in the shape of what I had erased. I closed and reopened the program and rebooted the iPad but the problem persisted. Such a glaring glitch will guarantee that I do not use this animation program next time I wok on an animated film.
The only way to get the animated monkey to work was to completely redo it. Since I already knew what I wanted the monkey to do, the animation went much faster the second time. Playback faltered with all the layers I had for each monkey, so I also had to compress the layers down to allow for smooth play back. The small monkey holding the toilet paper is the only monkey that has all the layers in case I want to go back and edit his animation.
Today I have three more monkeys to animate. All three have very subtle animation but with fluid tail movement. After this scene is finished I plan to go back and add animation to several of the rhinos in a previous shot shared. I figure if I animate the rhinos on either side of the single masked audience member, having them look at the masked man will help focus the audiences attention. The other 50 or so rhinos can remain still.