AS: I wanted to keep things as quick, easy, and fresh as possible. So every time I felt bored, or stuck I would add an element or adjust the technique. The character was at first just a black charcoal shadow, but after some time I felt the need for color and dry pastels came into play. When it was time for a plane to appear, it felt so much easier to make one out of paper and to move it frame by frame, then to draw it new every time. My pixilated hands became part of the film because I could not bear the idea of having to draw a two-second animation of a hand reaching for a plane. I thought it would take me the whole day to do that and wasn't it easier to just paint my hand black and do a pixilation? It took me just an hour to finish the scene! And I was excited to see that I could edit together the drawn character and the pixilated close-up of my own hand and some people did not even see it. Later this discovery that came out of a wish to simplify the process led to the story development I did not know about when I started making the film.
AS: I haven't really done it before this film. It felt the most obvious thing to do here since it is about the artist and the creation. Animation is not something I do 9 to 5 and then forget all about it. It is the way I look at the world and try to understand it and my place in it. And since this film was also about changing the process of animation, I wanted to show some of it at the beginning. It's always a mystery for me when the character becomes alive. Something I love the animation for. And there is this very tedious process that might get in the way, making you miss this feeling of wonder that is happening in front of you. So I wanted to have this contrast of boring repetitive action of the hands and the magical appearance of the whale.
Carl Cox I Want You Zippy
A great follow-up book for older readers who want to delve into the detail of interesting stories from our evolutionary past. Beautifully illustrated with plenty of contextual information, this book tells some amazing stories of evolutionary changes from the fossil record, including reptiles growing wings, birds with teeth, tiny elephants, and the titular walking whales. It has some lovely detail about the changes to Earth itself over the millennia and speculates about future possibilities for evolution and extinction. 2ff7e9595c
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