The finished piece!

I've finally done it after DAYS of trying different compression techniques. It has been SO tedious to enable to file size to retain quality but shrink it enough to place onto youtube but I did it and I'm fairly happy with the result. One thing to note is the change of ending for the story. Initially I had it written that after he stops taking anti-depressants he will fall into a worse state of depression but instead I opted for a happier ending in which he could appreciate being unhappy more than he could bear to feel nothing at all on his medication. I think the happier ending is a lot easier to swallow and makes it a little more uplifting.

A further update...

The four images below are of the sound editing stage of my animation. I was able to use the library that I have from the music recording software Mixcraft as well as the vast online library from freesfx.co.uk which offers royalty free music and sound effects. I sometimes had to edit sounds that I'd downloaded in Mixcraft to make them a little shorter in order to fit my animation. This is possible in Flash but it's nowhere near as simple. I also had to figure out how to apply a layer mask over the entire animation in order to block out the additional items that bleed over the Flash stage which took quite some time.

The following four images are photos of the final few segments of storyboard along with a rough initial character design for the Doctor. Some of the scenes I was able to cut while (hopefully) retaining the basic plot.