Applied Animation: Taking Inspiration From the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Using That to Set the Tone

That is the tone I wanted to set for the animation that on the surface everything is fine and it's just two animators making an animation but under the surface things are a lot more ominous than they seem.

To represent this ominous tone to Matt and Jemma I went about filming other animation students. The footage was completely natural and most the time they didn't even realise they were being filmed, and when they did I would cut away. I also just wanted to film this footage to better understand how to go about animating animators in a way that is realistic and true.