This time, I didn´t draw much, I only drew the background city, which consists of 8 layers. This may sound like a lot, but in fact, I drew two pictures and made the layers in computer. On the picture below are the layers as I made them. Number 1 is the top layer, layer 2 is below that, etc. and layer 8 is at the bottom, so the most of it is behind something. I originally wanted more moving things in the video, but then decided not to do them all. That´s the reason why I have divided the background into more layers than necessary. The green colour indicates the parts of the picture that are deleted, 100% transparent. The layer one only consists of the bridge, for example.
The next thing I did was insert a few images in between certain two layer. Like an image of a train in between layer 1 and layer 2, did some settings in Synfig, the rain above layer 1 etc. Then I blurred everything. Because it looks much better when everything (including the rain) is a little blurry.
The blinking signs (like the "casino" sign on the building in the middle) were very easy. I have done that by switching between two frames. One is empty, fully transparent, and the other one has only the sign "casino" in black colour at the right position. By switching between these two, it (hopefully) looks like blinking sign.
In the end, I let the Synfig program render all the frames. This little short video of mine consists of 614 pictures. Which would be insane to do manually. Insane and unnecessary. So, there you go, this video was done mainly on computer, which is the reason why is every movement linear and not very interesting.
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