In this shot, I animated the dragon, knight and flames bursting forward. The flame animation has the same timing as a football player who is running in flames in the next shot. That is a happy accident I am glad for. All of this animation was done using After Effects and the pin tool. I placed several pins in the feet to keep them anchored and then a pin in each joint. I am getting better at figuring out when to add pins. I now work out the movement of the bigger masses and then add pins for more refined motions. I also managed to do some decent animation moving the dragon tail. In past scenes I would go into Callipeg to animate something that loose.
Today I listened to the full Key of E cast album. By that I mean the actual record on a record player. Andy Matchett created an amazing album which is purposefully weathered and worn. It looks like it survived an apocalypse. Anyway Pam felt that some of the music from the epilogue could work at the end of the film over the credits. The credits now run for just 20 seconds so the audio would have to be that short. These was a really nice line that defines apocalypse. “The traditional definition of apocalypse is, a revelation, a disclosure of the truth in an age of falsehood and misconception.” Pam likes some lyrics that were about isolation. “I dreamed of isolation, wished that everyone was dead, I got my wish and got a load of misery instead.” These lyrics are a bit harsher than my word view. I just hope people can regain empathy and take simple steps to keep each other safe, like wearing well fitted N95 masks indoors and in crowded spaces, cleaning indoor air with HEPA filters and staying home when sick. My hopes that people are capable of caring has been lost.
All classrooms and hospitals could be made more safe from an airborne virus but no one cares enough to invest in the future. My film mainly points out that the pandemic is far from over though the public has been duped into believing a lie. The long term effects of ongoing mass infection are becoming more evident every day with each scientific study showing horrific long term harm as people repeatedly get infected.