This was a job completed at One Hand Clapping
Work required
Originally the footage was shot with the intention of being rotoscoped for drawn animation ( AHA – Take On Me style) but due to time constraints a different direction was taken. The edit was created, and I was tasked with rotoscoping the footage that was not shot to be cut out. I trained an employee who uses FCP to assist in the rotoscoping. We used Mocha for all the shots. This was my choice for my assistant as it is very easy to teach him how to use the program and then allowed me to spend more time on keeping his technique to a high standard, he had never rotoscoped till this day. For someone who is very comfortable with the program it really speeds up your roto work and did allow me to get through the shots very quickly. There was a few retakes later and some shots were shot on green screen but due to compression and lack of light a good key wasnt always available.
At the start of the project I worked on a scene with the moon in the sky, this was our template for how the rest was to look and be created. Myself and Paul Chesire worked on the compositing and Chris Holmes created the cgi backgrounds.