When it comes to 20th century, the location switch to a hospital and the tone of the backgrounds turns into blue, as it was a cold night, all the TB patients are coughing hard and waiting for the antibiotic injection.Įventually we get to 21st century, a London street background design featuring the famous red phone box, many colourful shops, double yellow lines on the road, pedestrians, bikes.Īnd, again, I’m so grateful that I completed my very first time of a micro film, it was such a great experience! AfterEffects Photoshop TVPaint Children are enjoying a warm afternoon soaking up the sun on their bed at school as a treatment. Vintage style was carried out on decorating room and clothes patterns. Here are all the backgrounds I’ve done to fit different periods of time.įor 18th century, the castle is the core of the background design.ġ9th century in London, I’ve used a horse and carriage to set the time, as well as Big Ben to give a clear understanding of the location. Probably because I’ve never done this before, I was struggling to keep the time. Moreover, I had serious trouble matching each narration with my scenes, not sure if I did it alright but what I did is that I listened to every sentence of my narration, then I counted and marked it down in my TVPaint file to remind myself how many seconds per shot.
Having narration for my film is also a big challenge for me because the animation is presented in a documentary way, in that case, I need to be very careful not to mess up with all the information or audiences might not be able to understand the story after all. Apart from that, I did quite a lot of research on distinctive backgrounds and costumes from 18th to 21st century before I even started doing my animation, that really stressed me out as I was already afraid of not having enough time to get my film done. Since this is supposed to be a 1 minute animation but I chose to present it in a documentary style which contains a great amount of information throughout different periods of time, so I had to compress it and focus on the important events and the treatments of the disease. Needless to say, there were many difficulties which are rather challenging for me to make the film. On the bright side, I haven’t had any major issues while doing it, all I needed was A HUGE AMOUNT OF PATIENCE, that’s all! I had spent about one and a half months colouring my short film in Photoshop and, finally, I managed to complete it. Honestly, I’ve tried insanely hard to colour it, as if it took forever to get it done.