In the spirit of A-Ha's Take On Me, my film was created with pencil and paper.
The Process
At the time of creating this animation, I didn’t have a Wacom so I decided to go with the most basic (and time consuming) process I could think of. It looked like this:
Storyboarded it out
Shot footage with my iPhone
Edited the film at a low frame rate
Exported frames as JPGs
Printed each frame out – yep, every frame - onto real paper (CRAZY)
Traced each frame onto a blank piece of paper over a lightbox (EVEN CRAZIER)
Scanned every sketch
Importing image sequences in After Effects
A little comping and After Effects magic, but almost all of it was just good ol’ hand rotoscoped goodness
There were about 1,000 drawn pages in the end.
