Very nice work! How was the animation and live action footage composited? It's really seemless. Also, the children's book adaptation looks very beautiful.
Hi Pierre, The compositing of the live footage was done in Anime Studio.
I worked with the shadows in the layers of the characters and placed a shadow under the characters. The shadows were drawn with the brush tool. I chose one of the wilder brushes and set the brush spacing 75 %
I filled the drawn shadow with black and in the layer properties I gave it a Blur of 3 % and the opacity at 65 %. The Layer Blender Mode was set to Multiply.
Finally, after 6 months of work here it is. The first delivery of a series called Eleazar Darkie. It was animated with Anime Studio Pro and post-produced with After Effects. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed doing it. Please post your comments.