Blu didn't need so many alterations, masks and shadows as the girl; he doesn't move around the set so doesn't cast shadows over a range of surfaces and he was painted with the lighting already in mind. This meant that I didn't feel the need to add rim lights as I did with the girl.
I did add shadow to the wing, shadow onto the body cast onto the wing and on the front foot, as well adding a shadow rim to the tail. The shadow to the body from the wing was very important as I couldn't paint this on before as it was going to be a moving component.
Animated puppet, without alterations:
Animated puppet, with shadow alterations:
I then used the animated comp of Blu to create a shadow for him as he sits on the mountain. It is a very basic shadow but I feel that he needs more done to him to give the appearance of sitting on the cotton wool.
As you can see Blu doesn't sit well in his environment as well as the girl does. I received feed back from family members and they made me realises that he has no weight. He is sitting on a lot of cotton wool and isn't sinking into it. I need to add come cotton wool images in front of him and incorporate his shadow into those as well as the back plate.
Another point of feed back form myself is there is a lot of noise causing the side of the mountain to flicker (from the blue screen). This may be because the blur channel contains more noise than the others. I will probably mask this out, using a tracker marker to track the mask layer.
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