character animation: hat??

We had the simple idea of animating a hat flying through the wind and having someone chase after it. We first had to think of a way to animate the hat flying through the air without our hands appearing and resorted to unbending bobby pins and taping them together to the hat. Then we had to figure out how we wanted the toy octopus would walk across the scene and concluded to have him shimmy his way across rotating his body. The little octopus was animated by Leslie Wyatt. The hat was animated by myself, Michelle Choi. And the camerawork, cinematography, and the big octopus was animated by Danny Trang.