As soon as the grouping was confirmed, I contacted Xinhe, who showed me his storyline, storyboards, character designs, etc. and sent me the breakdown of a shot. So I am the animator of this shot.
As you can see from the breakdown, the shot is about a little girl getting something out of the fridge. So I started by making a very rough sketch to determine the rhythm and timing of the action.
Once that was done, I discussed with Xinhe whether the pacing and timing of the shot were appropriate for the film and adjusted the pacing of the action to suit the plot of the story.
As there was a lot of repetitive walking and running action in this shot, I was challenged to keep the shot from becoming uninteresting due to repetition while still explaining the story.
I discovered from this collaboration that the timing of a shot does not exactly follow the rules of the real world. The timing of a shot has to fit the rhythm of the whole story. This is something I didn’t know from having not worked on a full film before.