The solution to resolving some very pixelated Ram’s hands was to double the size of the scene in Callipeg and re-animate the entire scene. All of the hands needed to be redrawn at a much higher resolution. Even the ram itself was becoming pixelated each time I exported it from After Effects. I decided I could not use the exported movie from After Effects to work on. The only files that had full resolution were the original Procreate paintings.
I decided the original file can only stand loosing some resolution one time. Resolution is lost when exporting files between Callipeg and After Effects.
I decided to rework the opening shot which also has pixelation. I am hoping I can just do cleaned up drawings on top of each of the ambulance drawings. There is a chance however that I might have to re time some of the animation and then re-paint each cell. At first I thought I could live with the pixelation since the ambulance is small and in the distance, but now that I found this solution I have to try cleaning up the shot.
I couldn’t resist submitting my film to another film festival in Brussels yesterday. I checked to see what the pandemic charts looked like in Brussels and the numbers seem so small compared to America. Hope runs eternal.