This post was written by Michelle Gallina and originally appeared on the Adobe blog on January 25, 2025.While traveling from the present in isolated Shamattawa, Canada to bustling 1980s Toronto, the film debates complex issues of race and identity while reflecting on the challenges that come with trying to make a documentary while raising nine kids and a bunch of dogs.Endless Cookie premieres January 25th at the Sundance Film Festival. Before the debut, we got a chance to speak with Seth Scriver, whose animations are the foundation of the film, and editor Sydney Cowper. Seth started animating the film in Flash 8 before upgrading nearly 16 (!) generations of the software to Animate and pairing it with After Effects. Cowper came on six years later to bring the story to life in the edit, using a combination of Premiere Pro, Animate, Audition, Frame.io, and Media Encoder. “We kept our software within the Adobe family to keep our crazy workflow as seamless as possible,” Cowper said.Read on for our conversation with Seth Scriver and Cowper about their creative inspirations, meticulous workflows, and the making of Endless Cookie.Seth, how did you first get into animation? What drew you to it?SCRIVER: I used to go through the garbage cans of the computer animation class that I wasn't enrolled in and reanimate the projects in there, messing them up, dissecting them, and giving them a bizarre new life.What was the inspiration behind this project? What were you trying to achieve?SCRIVER: I was inspired to...
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