Experimentation | Update# 7

As stated before, since diya is an essential plot device, the fire animation needed to be very fluid and I tried a test animation, where I roto-scoped my hand movements.

Firstly, I recorded a video of my hand doing the exact movement that I wanted. For the skin tone I went with an Olive green texture as it is the most common skins colour of the Asians. The matchstick top had to black as well, for the burnt effect. Next after tracing it and colouring it in procreate, I animated it using after effects.

At first I wanted to draw the fire frame-by-frame but decided on making it digital. I found the perfect tutorial for this on YouTube, where an effect called CC Mr. Mercury helped me achieve. To add a bit of grainy effect I applied a simple choker and to sell the effect I added a combination of box blur and cc composite.

When ever you are dealing with a light object there is always ambient light on the respective object that is dealing with it. In order to do this, I fiddled around with drop shadows and the glow effect and after a few hours I was able to achieve this.