I decided to have the pallbearers walk forward with a slow ponderous walk. I usually put one in-between between the keys but with this walk I put 3 in-betweens which slowed the walk down significantly. A widow clutching a triangular flag is in the foreground and she blocks the view of the left most pallbearers.
I animated the legs of the front two pallbearers and then duplicated those keys to all the legs of the other four visible legs. I decided that this level of military precision was appropriate. Once all the legs were painted, I deleted the line work. My goal is to make these police very transparent so that the cemetery tombstones appear through them.
I had painted the police to make it seem like they were transparent. Now I repainted the background so it will appear through them when I make them transparent. Since they walk forward the tombstones need to stay in place.
My biggest challenge today is to get parallax to work on the widow while she is a separate foreground element. I did pull this off with a black sheep in the first shot of the film but as I recall it caused a crash before I got it to function.