what did you do today?
This Oscar-winning short film is how I imagine Phil Connors’ mind on Day 33 . It’s called Tango . If you’ve got 8 minutes, watch it before you continue reading. It’s an amazing exercise in… well, it’s live action, it’s animation, it’s trick photography, it’s a lot of complicated things. Anyway, if you haven’t the time, it’s one room filled with the actions of 36 characters, starting with a kid coming in the window after a soccer ball, and gradually introducing the other characters until the room is a mass of perfectly orchestrated and choreographed action. For some of the huge amount of work that went into designing this film, have a look here . 16,000 cell-mattes, several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. Seven months of work, sixteen hours a day. (I think Phil Connors could relate.) Particularly, notice the levels of complexity in this single gif: Or this graph of where each character (or group of characters) comes in: In his book, Animation Techniques , Ro...