Hello, everyone. I finished up another animatic tonight, called GRZECHY KRÓLESTWA. It is really short and on-the-nose, but an idea that has been creatively bothering me for ages. I realized, while making ZEGAR, that making this was possible, too, and got to work immediately.

Below is brief behind-the-scenes stuff.

THE PROCESS:

The idea was roughly scripted, storyboard-ed in grids and finally had frames sketched out, colored, transferred and printed. Each frame was printed onto newsprint paper in sets of three per page, then re-scanned and put together digitally in another program.

The frames themselves were drawn on a separate device to the one printing them. I had to figure out a method for transferring batches of files across desktop and non-desktop devices for this reason, and so, used a syncing tool.

To save up on my poor toner and paper, fully animated frames ended up being minimal like with ZEGAR, but utilized other methods for movement so it isn't a pure slide-show. Shaking, fading, varying lighting and re-scanning, for instance. Limited resources forced me to make every frame that was made count, mostly, specially in composition and framing.

THE COMMENTARY:

What the animatic tries to get across is the ongoing draconian laws targeting transsexual people who need healthcare. This is where the beast appears, and the men in power represented by it. The animation opens with them writing, be they letters or laws, and fades to an empty waiting room, save for him. Our protagonist.

The men can be interpreted in two differing ways, from my perspective — legislators and doctors, both groups engaging in medical discrimination against those in transition, and pushing the boundaries of law to allow for said discrimination.

I decided to design these men after vultures and traditional depictions of dragons, for this reason. Animals which loot the dead and hoard things respectively, in this case that not being wealth, but leveraged medicinal care.

TRIVIA:

• The dragon was lightly influenced by a beautiful album called ELP, which introduced me to the composition used here in the first place as they had a cover of it in their discography. I first listened to the album during a difficult time years back, and it stuck with me. "The Miracle" by ELP used dragons as a lyrical metaphor for corruption.
• There are scrapped, but finished, frames! I might share them, but there isn't much. Most were redrawn and had those redrawn versions added to the final version eventually.

That is all. Hope people enjoy the little animatic!