ummm I didn't have to do that - the character on the bike is a stop motion articulated 'puppet' made from digital photos in the animated sections. no bluescreen/rotoscoping on this one

jeez... super impressive. dedication.

Sure, it's stop motion done on 3 layers of perspex with a video camera mounted above looking down. So I had one layer for background, the middle and the front. I collected all the images from encyclopaedias and the internet, and then moved all the bits of paper frame by frame for about 6 weeks...

Sheezus.

So, 1st, you filmed background.

Next middle, then foreground?

Did you key it out in After effects or are all 3 layers seperated by pieces of glass?

no, it's all in camera, all layers filmed at once. although if I made this now that I know after effects i might do it layer by layer. the shadows are nice though

How did you seperate the layers?

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On a side note, you've inspired me to try something like this.