One of the most challenging part of the production was the right timing of all the different elements in this short film. They all needed to happen exactly at the right moment so the viewer could follow the action without losing the "story" line.

In this frame there are 32 animated birds landing on a power supply line which had to bend under their weight in the very moment when their feet would touch it.

To achieve a better kind of work-sharing they used placeholders for all objects that were not yet drawn, modelled or animated. In this case they were able to determine the route the birds would take to reach the power supply line while designer Dennis could already animate their wings. Later they joined all results together.

All the timing was arranged by using motion paths. Every character, vehicle or object that had to cover a certain distance would be attached to such a motion path that it would follow from then on. This technique was very helpful to maintain a certain flexibility during the animation process because it obtained the possibility to determine when an object would reach a certain point on the motion path.