Project #1 - Documentation for Rest in Peace

I soon discovered that I was viewing the road from a pretty high angle over the road, and I needed to approach the straight angles in the first curved-road drawing (vertical right side of the road as seen on the screen), to bring the car into the picture, and to zoom in to the view of the interior of the car. I drew the car top views next.

Now I had a position to zoom to. It took a few tries and discarded drawings. There are 13 images in the descent from the high view of the road to the roof top including the second intersection (2 drawings). Each drawing was still 3 video frames long.

The original and 2 copies of the interior drawing with the teens in the car made it into the video. Matching the hair on each person's head among drawings proved difficult. Probably the moisture on the tracing paper caused one drawing to be useless, so 3 images made the cut. This was an emotionally difficult set to draw. I began increasing the duration of each image. Once the car ran off of the road and the driver over-corrected, time seemed to no longer matter.

This is where the animation departed from the dream. In the video, a single roll of the car, expressed as short flashes against a dark, dark night, was sufficient evidence for the viewer to understand the relevance of this series. After a long dark moment, the final curve reappears, no foliage, with only a single police car blocking the road, its lights flashing. This scene was a replacement for my original ending scene, but ending of my dream and reality were much the same.