Careless

In the beginning of January I got involved in a film about mental health and suicide called "Careless". I was working as an animation assistant with Louise Bell.
We met up with Catriona and she gave us a run down of what animated sequences she wanted. one of the scenes that I took on was the drug abuse scene. We thought it would be effective to use smoke as a visual and have anxious faces come in and out of the smoke. I worked with Catrionas son to get footage of him screaming and closeups of his eyes so I could layer them onto the smoke.

I tried to film smoke from cigarette but it just wouldnt pick up on the camera, plus I had to do it outside which mean lighting was hard. Then I had an idea, milk! I could film milk in water and it would look like smoke.

In the end I came up with this scene.

After that I just helped with basic things like tweening and animated a walk cycle for Louise to animate over