I remembered when we decide which method we are going to use, our group kind of struggled during that period. We received different advice and its hard to make a choice between digital drawing and traditional stop-motion way. Finally, we decided to combine them. It made me very excited cuz after I watched the pitch from another group, they use live-action which is really attractive. It reminds me of the essay we worked on about the animation documentary the last term. During the research, I found a lot of directors they choose this way to create their work and this special visual effect their works shows is really interesting and beautiful. Also, this is the first time I work this way and it’s a precious experience for me.
After the long break during summer, we started the official making of the LIAF project.
During filming, we found its really difficult to make it as same as our animatic although we imported it and used onion skin. At first, we tried drawing the reference layer, but it works for the part which has a slight movement of the fragments. Thinking about the latter part, we got so many different shapes of paper cut and natural cotton. If we draw the reference for the whole animation is gonna be a really big work, taking a long time. So we decided to shoot directly without the reference.