Weekend Update

I've got a fair amount of animation down on my Sarah Palin project. I have a bunch of sequences that I really like, however they aren't yet making a cohesive whole. Obviously it is missing major chunks in between, however I am not too worried. I conceived of this project as a series of set pieces rather than a continuous narrative, which I think serves the audio well. Palin's disjointed "stream" of thought lends itself well to different styles of animation, and I don't regret using a "set piece" style of planning as opposed to a more linear path. This has also allowed me to move past the block of "what's next?" and figure out how to link those scenes that I already have, ergo "I've got points A and C, now let's find B".

I have the opening battle plan.
I have the neighbors sequence.
I have Putin's rearing head.
Now, all I need are the final scene of Putin wreaking havoc on Alaska (see picture below) and the various trade missions, which I conceive as arrows pointing "back" and "forth" between Russia and Slaska on the map.

For Katie Couric's questions, I really want to have very simple title-plates that stand in contrast to the erratic movement that accompanies Sarah Palin's answers.

Enough chatter. Here is what I have so far.

NOTE: Obviously all of it is "In progress" but I put the note there to show scenes which haven't yet been inserted.


Sarah Palin 3 from Gabriel Aronson on Vimeo.

And here is my concept for the final scene (ignore the text, it belongs in the previous scene).



The lasers shooting out of his eyes will then sear away the film, and it will bubble and melt away.