I found a line in my journal that, "the worst prisons are in our minds". I remembered someone say that being clinically depressed is like living in a hole and I had a title and a visual. The monolog fell out of these two ideas.

I used Hash Animation Master to create the straight look and then fed the footage through After Effects to get the painterly look. Hash is a great program and made the modelling, rigging and animation go very smoothly.

It's not very clear but the fire was supposed to represent television. I had a paragraph that spelled it out, but I didn't have any good visuals to drive it so I didn't use it. Because animating is like acting, I found it difficult emotionally to keep going and I felt a real sense of relief when I'd finished.