It's a six part fully animated documentary series for TV about people who do good things for our environment.
I animated it all by myself on an insane schedule. I had about a month for each 14 minute episode and in that month I had to:
- -Collaborate on the script
-Edit the interviews
-Make an animatic
-Animate the whole thing
-Make music
-Record sounds
-Edit the episode
-Mix the sound
We were two people working on it, my partner traveled around the world recording interviews while I stayed at home animating. Fair division of labor right?
Actually, I tagged along to Stockholm and London but he went to Congo, Chile, India and Trinidad.
It may not be the best looking animation ever but given the constraints I feel pretty proud of it. It's by far the biggest project I've undertaken yet.
I tried a lot of different ways of working in order to be as efficient as possible.
In this shot there wasn't a lot of movement needed so I drew the tiger in Illustrator and Imported it into AS:
This workflow was quite a hassle so I only used it on this shot.
Whenever else there was limited motion needed I drew pieces in Paint tool SAI instead:
That background is a bitmap as well, but most of the time I made the backgrounds in AS. I made an .anme file with trees, bushes, grass, skies etc and then imported and rearranged pieces to get suitable backgrounds.
I also experimented a little bit with shooting silhouettes on video and mixing with the animation. In this shot I filmed my backlit hand and composited in:
Here's a still of a shot where I used the silhouette of my head:
In Sweden it will air on SVT2 at 14:30 on these dates:
- January 26
February 2
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 1
It will air in Finland and Norway as well but I don't have those dates or times yet.
A recut version of the India episode will be screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival at the end of the month.
There's a website for the series (with some short clips) here: http://earthsaversfilms.com/