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Cartoon Brew: Can you describe how you developed your visual approach to the film? Why did you settle on this style/technique?

Andrew Chesworth: I wanted the film to resemble a fully restored animated short from the 1940s but use pragmatic digital techniques to justify extremely limited resources besides my own time.
Instead of paper and cels, I had Photoshop and TVPaint. Instead of a multiplane camera, I had After Effects. The trains were animated in Maya on 2s and 1s and rendered to look like drawings. The final look is the result of compromise between period authenticity and tools that made the film achievable by a small, remote team.

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