Scientific Animatic

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So, it's been a while since I posted anything substantial and that's mostly due to my spending less time on the internet and more time fretting about college work (David Foster Wallace said in an interview something to the effect of "I spend 10% of my time writing and 90% worrying about not writing", which rings so true.). I'm at a stage where I'm redrawing my pencilled frames in ink and adding detail, which is very slow going. But when I shoot the days work it feels wonderful to see the finished shots.

Soon, I'll be posting some stills from what I've been doing, but, for now, I thought I'd show some frames from my animatic. For those unfamiliar with the animation process, an animatic is basically a filmed storyboard - a kind of mock-up of the film, which allows you to get a sense of its pacing and to edit it before you start drawing. Initially, this was going to be almost the whole film; a lot of patterns depicting quarks, atoms, dna molecules and so forth. I had a lot of input from my friend Andy Eschbacher, who is a quantum physicist. The thing is, it's impossible to draw atoms and sub-atomic particles because they're like nothing we can imagine. So these drawings are only symbolical.

Since the beginning of the project, the film has changed quite a lot. It now centers on two characters (I posted a character sheet a while back). Anyways, here it is:

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