The next sequence was done in photoshop cs4.

I made a background picture of sky, and background earth, then over that on a fresh layer I drew a foreground pile of earth.
Sandwiched between these are numerous layers with seed, shoot and flowers and roots at various stages, all of which were saved as 11 stills.
These were saved as jpegs and imported into premiere 5.
I then applied video effects to cross fade each into the next and set it to sequence, as an avi file again (h264 which I used for the mask line drawings was not powerful enough here)



I hoped that the roots would look as though they had flattened the earth. I think I was a little too vigorous with my eraser on that particular frame but it doesn't seem too bad and time is short. If I have time I will return to the appropriate still and correct it. I had wanted it to look as though the violet had started an avalanche (after a Tennessee Williams quote, "the violets in the mountains can move rocks" but the scale was difficult. So...