Locus Ludi: animation of Dr’s grave to aid involvement and accessibility

At the Ure we (we is me, Jayne & Summer Courts, who is one of my PhD students.) are doing a video with Panoply’s Steve Simons for our forthcoming Locus Ludi exhibition (re. play, games & gaming in antiquity), animating the Doctor’s Grave from Colchester (see, e.g. https://heritagefutures.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/stanway-the-doctors-grave/). It just hit the skids because of a miscommunication with the Swiss lady in charge of Locus Ludi (https://locusludi.ch/) who says there’s no money left for that. This animation is, however, an essential aspect of the special needs work we’re intending to do with the exhibition, so anxious to find some funding asap. Do you think the Friends would be interested in supporting this?
 Our exhibit also has loans from Reading Museum & British Museum.
With very best wishes & thanks, as ever.
Yours,
Amy (Prof Amy Smith, Ure Museum, Dept of Classics)
  (Revised) Estimates from the animator:
A. There is the option of focusing completely on the game board in the animation.
For instance: we could have a narrator explain how it was found, and detail the board and possible games played. A drawing of the grave would show where the grave goods were deposited within the grave. The board would then lift out to fill the screen. The grave and contents fade into the background, leaving the counters playing out a phantom game, described by the narrator.
I suggest making the animation around 1-2 minutes long.
B. The other option is to have a video along the lines of the About… series of videos we’ve been making, where we have a narrator with a mix of photos, video and animation. The advantage of this is that it would make it easier to talk about the grave and wider topics beyond just the game board.
I suggest making this video no longer than 5 minutes.
The narrator would be filmed in front of the camera, at the reconstruction of the grave in Colchester, unless you have your own exhibition version to hand this summer?
Can you tell me what’s available to film/photograph?
Cost wise we’re looking at £2000 to create a hand drawn animation of the grave and game board with some sort of game playing out.
The longer video would be £3000. It would use hand drawn elements along with video recording and photos, and requires equipment hire.
——————– Additional note from Annette: The Ure has done extensive work with the animator before, involving several local schools. Here’s an example Love of Honour | Panoply Vase Animation Project