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One of the animation "cells."
I just finished up 43 seconds of "final cut" animation for the film. It's a piece I'd been working on for nearly eight months now.
There will be another animated sequence in the film, too. That one is almost ready to be rendered.
The thing about these scenes is that they happened when no one was around to see it - out in the open ocean or under the sand. I chose to animate them because they are both important to the overall story and hard to imagine with just a narrative description.
I hope, too, that younger viewers will gain a better understanding of the whole story from the animated scenes.
Most of all, I'm happy with them...and that is actually saying A LOT.
The film continues to be tweaked and edited. The final storyboards were finished and laid out last weekend.
I can only say that I love this version of the film MORE than I did the first one..and the first version was fantastic.

Cheers,
-Rick