Post 21: The Snakes Sequence

   This picture is merely a place holder in the Storyboard, and I have to figure out how to animate the snakes(I only have two).
  I first thought of doing a stop motion animation in front of a 30" x 45" or so wooden blue screen cut out with holes matching the doors and windows of the actual building, keying out the snakes, and layering the animation in After Effects on an image of the facade. But the problem would be in getting realistic software shadows.
   To get the realism I am after, it seems I am going to have to actually glue a photograph of the facade to the board.
  In that case, what photograph? It could be the  burnt out building(the bright colored snakes would look good on that darker background:

  On the other hand, if the window frames were in, the animation would be both more intricate (there would be more possible paths),and easier , as the frames would provide structure and support to the snakes, especially in the lower part of the building. But the just rebuilt "new" facade is more light in color and would not be as interesting a background:

   So, may be I should create a special background image of the facade in a "run down derelict abandoned " state with broken windows, but with most of the frames and the doors still in place...