Taking into account the feedback of the initial animatic, I revised some scenes and added a bit of depth to some. Halfway through, I realized that animating a smoke trail throughout the video would be a challenge, and need to devise a different approach.
I started animating rough scenes where the words did most of the work and the images were allowed to roam freely.
The above is a sample animation for the part;
Sleeping on my mother’s bed, at my age, doesn’t feel so strange. It is warm.
The above is a sample animation for the part;
Sons are the fingerprints of hands hidden in pockets. They need the need to be kept a secret-
The animation was a bit jerky and so I added a couple of in-betweens and further extended it to amplify the words. I added some fingerprint details and half-way through I started adding base colouring to find the look and feel of the scene.
Arsalan Awais 