The Birth of Opera - rough animation

Here's a first draft of animation for the Birth of Opera chapter or sequence in Billiards. I wanted to try using wet paint for doing animation which is effective but possibly not right for this sequence. I'm also planning to have more opera singers emerging, and overlaying bits of musical notation, but hopefully you get the idea.

OPERA en DEUX actes

Static Opera in 2 Acts

The Birth of Opera

The first public release of music from Ergo Phizmiz's work-in-progress electronic essay opera "Billiards", created as Embedded composer-in-residence for Sound & Music and The Opera Group.

In this sequence, opera is dragged kicking and screaming into the world...