“I wanted to take the feelings of anxiety I was having and try and deal with them in a bright and colorful way, a way that kind of embraced them for what they are, and what they really felt like to me.

“As the film was animated primarily in After Effects in a sort of unrigged, cut-up style, it meant I could work very quickly and test things out and see how I felt about them,” he adds. “But this process took a long time to develop a structure, and when I was stressing out about it I decided to blow off some steam and try something new, experimenting with traditional 35mm scratch animation – painting inks directly onto 35mm film, using bleach to remove the chemicals on it, all sorts.

“This required very little planning – I allowed myself to just roll with it and see what happened. That’s how the stress-jazzy bits were made – it was actually the most relaxing and fun part of the process!”

You can see the film by clicking play below!

The post Watch Short Animated Film “Herman Brown is Feeling Down” appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I wanted to take the feelings of anxiety I was having and try and deal with them in a bright and colorful way, a way that kind of embraced them for what they are, and what they really felt like to me.

“As the film was animated primarily in After Effects in a sort of unrigged, cut-up style, it meant I could work very quickly and test things out and see how I felt about them,” he adds. “But this process took a long time to develop a structure, and when I was stressing out about it I decided to blow off some steam and try something new, experimenting with traditional 35mm scratch animation – painting inks directly onto 35mm film, using bleach to remove the chemicals on it, all sorts.

“This required very little planning – I allowed myself to just roll with it and see what happened. That’s how the stress-jazzy bits were made – it was actually the most relaxing and fun part of the process!”

You can see the film by clicking play below!

The post Watch Short Animated Film “Herman Brown is Feeling Down” appeared first on TettyBetty.