Designing the Characters
All the elements of the film were drawn first, most of the time re-drawn again and again. Each frame was first worked up in Illustrator to decide on final shapes and colours. Illustrator gave me the ability to edit the characters as much as I wanted before finally taking them into photoshop to give them the extra touches and shading which is in the final film.
Things could change alot from the original sketches. But 99% of the time the final decisions were made at the illustrator stage. For example in the cow falling scene , I changed it quite alot to simplify the fall, this allowed me to make a loop with the ears flapping and the nostrils flaring, but then overlay the eyes etc.. This meant it was much easier to get the length of the scene right without having to make the exact number of frame s.
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