This is my latest personal film once again motivated by a wonderful soundtrack. I had many ambitious ideas for this film, but as you can see I've relied on long camera moves and repeat cycles. It seemed to fit the hypnotic dream mood I wanted to create. Truthfully the whole thing was a way of using the multiplane feature in the Toon Boom Animate program and the slow movement through planes of paint worked well with it.
This film is also very stylistically different for me, (hopefully all my films have a different feel) . I've never painted using a palette knife before but my mother-in-law was a pretty gifted artist and we own many of her paintings so I had a ready reference for the look.
Another reason for the palette knife look is I could achieve it digitally. In the olden days I would have had to paint on glass and space the planes on some kind of track. There would have been problems with thick paint drying too slowly and lights glaring off the glass sheets, and finding some way to calibrate a camera to move through the scenes. It made me appreciate the trouble the Disney guys had to go through to film their incredible mulitplane shots. Speaking of Disney, the lighting effect of the lion was taken from the Pink Elephant on Parade sequence in Dumbo.
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