Flashback Scenes

The final thing left to do other than editing and sound, is the flashback sequence. To make it really stand out from the rest of the animation, I decided to make it very de-saturated and also have a black vignette overlay type thing. After drawing all the scenes using my storyboard reference, I took each one to after effects and composited them:

I started by keyframing any movement in the scene. For this one it was a zoom and pan, others had zooms, lights flashing and doors closing. Once the base movement was done, I added a wiggle expression to get a shaky kind of POV feel. I then added the animated overlay on top of the whole composition, and finally added a radial blur to it to get that sort of zoomed in dreamy effect.

I'm quite happy with how these turned out, as I think its quite clear that these are flashback scenes. I also think the wiggle movement and the overlay makes them a lot more interesting to look at than the animatic versions, and they feel more like part of the animation now, rather than just exposition.