I am now scattering animation throughout the film. Rather than work from start to finish, I am jumping around in case I need to screed the film before all the animated scenes are in place. The fat lady sings is one of the the last shots in the film. This is a longer short at about 2 seconds so I have about 30 drawings to do today to complete the animation.
Ultimately the head, shoulders and the braids will be Animated while the breastplates and lower body will be a held cell. I will have to go back into the painting to separate out the lower body elements and erase the upper body which will be an animation layer.
I am considering having the singers face animate a beat red as she holds the sustained note. I have done this before and it is pretty easy by just changing the color on each frame as I go through the scene painting the face color.