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How did you make this?
Photoshop cs6 character frames, using the timeline function. Premiere for timing and compositing. Plus traditionally inked backgrounds
a clear and succinct run down of your process
Brainstorming self-contained stories for characters I made for my comics. The characters are actors to fit into any story i want them to act out. Script → storyboards. Storyboards become key frames. In-betweens done with Shane's help, especially with him filling in the black shadows and doing still boiling “squiggle” frames.
the time it took you
90% of the process was done in two semesters of school plus a summer. Then I sat on it for like 10 years cuz school made me depressed about making art. The last 10% was done here in NC, adding original music from Aron Speer, and mild cuts/edits.
the composition process
Backgrounds drawn traditionally first, to fit the characters on them. Drawn with nib pen and ink on 11×14 papers, then scanned.
Characters were drawn in Photoshop, then exported as individual frames. The frames were then one-by-one added on top of the background in Adobe Premiere. It's a pretty low fps, maybe on 3's or 4's most of the time. I like it cuz it imitates the low quality of surveillance cameras. The black and white drawings were toned green/yellow and blurred a bit with a filter over the whole thing in Premiere.
I had a friend in San Francisco put my movie through his VHS machine and re-record it, and I mixed those textures throughout the animation (like the beginning blue screen).