This shot is a pan from the boy to the passengers seated behind him. I rather liked the lady with the cat eye sunglasses so she appears in many scenes. Since it a fairly fast pan I will likely not animate anything in the scene. If there is time in the end I cold animate the boys eyes glancing back but that is icing on the cake. Looking at the shot now, I realize I need to add a blurred out background outside the windows. There are so many faast decisions that need to be made, that sometimes I don’t see the forest through the trees.
For the rest of the afternoon I will be animating a passenger walking up the aisle of the bus. That scene appears for shots from this moment. I also need to animate the boy walking back to his seat. I had some issues compositing yesterday. Callipeg doesn’t export PNG files with transparency in an entire animation. I ended up having to import each drawing and painting of the character individually into Adobe Premiere Pro and reducing the clip sizes to 4 frames. even with that solution I am finding that the images are bleached out a bit making line work drop away. I may need to find another solution. I also need to back up all the files onto an external hard drive from my iPad, but Apple makes that a nightmare scenario. I hope to accomplish that before the iPad freezes up from lack of memory.
This short film will be on display at Yesterday This Was Hoe at the Orange County Regional History Center, (65 E. Central Blvd. Orlando, Florida 32801) on display October 3, 2020 – February 14, 2021.
The exhibit is about the 1920 Ocoee Massacre in Orange County, Florida, remains the largest incident of voting-day violence in United States history.
Events unfolded on Election Day 1920, when Mose Norman, a black U.S. citizen, attempted to exercise his legal right to vote in Ocoee and was turned away from the polls. That evening, a mob of armed white men came to the home of his friend, July Perry, in an effort to locate Norman. Shooting ensued. Perry was captured and eventually lynched. An unknown number of African American citizens were murdered, and their homes and community were burned to the ground. Most of the black population of Ocoee fled, never to return.
This landmark exhibition will mark the 100-year remembrance of the Ocoee Massacre. The exhibition will explore not only this horrific time in our community’s history but also historical and recent incidents of racism, hatred, and terror, some right here at home.
The content will encourage reflection on a century of social transformation, the power of perspective, and the importance of exercising the right to vote, and will ask what lessons history can inspire for moving forward.