The video project prompt was to make a daydream video and the first thing that came to my mind was to do something around the school. The two weeks before I started this project I had exams which proved to be very hard and very exhausting. I had spent two weeks sitting at my desk from the time I got up till the time I went to bed and I was mentally drained, this was the inspiration that led me to this video. When I first started I was trying to draw each frame by hand with the reference video in photoshop and animate cc.
|Above, keyframe for frame 539. Below, reference frame 529|
It was a very slow process and took my hours to get through only a few frames, I ended up with around 2500 so this was not a reasonable method. I had remembered seeing a YouTuber who used a program called EBSynth for his videos which gave them a very unique feeling and I looked into it. The program allows you to draw just 1 frame and it will interpolate it onto as many other frames as you tell it to. This worked to an extent but the program struggles when things come in and out of frame or even disappear, like your eyes when you blink. This expanded my idea from a daydream to a nightmare and resulted in the fading away of my facial features as you can see in the video.
|Above is frame 765 from the video and below is how EBSynth attempted to draw it.|
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