Stopmotionfinal from Anisha Subberwal on Vimeo.

Our assignment was to re create a memory in a dream-like way, the original goal was to find a “bad” memory. One bad memory everyone has is food poisoning, I thought I could create that in a very interesting way and “dream like” or “magical” way. I wanted to show the food go inside someones body and make it comical by showing the person go to the bathroom. Just to make the whole story more interesting, at least visually I chose to show the food going down someones stomach a very eccentric one. There’s this low-key almost hole in the wall place in Hong Kong where they give you a very weird looking egg waffle. The shop is called “Oddies” which also adds to the strangeness of this video.

In a lot of my artwork, I love the use of color and so I wanted this video to be no different. I incorporated my color scheme and my swirly doodles through the backgrounds of each scene. And because it was a collaboration Stephanie incorporated her Anime like style. It was a successful collaboration in my opinion, we managed to work very well together, we took turns when it came to using the drawing tablet. We started out with sketching the ideas on paper and then transferring it onto the computer. I had a little bit of prior knowledge with the animating on Adobe Photoshop, but its safe to say a lot of what we were doing was experimentation. After successfully animating the first few scenes, it started to become a whole lot easier, it was just a time-consuming process. On the plus side, we didn’t have to animate the background for every frame in the scene. After animating 8 scenes on separate Photoshop files, we transferred the videos on to Adobe Premiere and started to assemble the whole video. We gathered sounds from free-sound.org and recorded a few and transferred them on to Premiere.

Overall, I would say that Stephanie and I successfully collaborated on this project. We both had the initial idea to do our animation digitally which is why we decided to partner up, because if we were do our projects alone it would be a lot of work, and this way we not only got to divide the workload but it was a successful merge of our artistic styles.