We’ve tried a couple of things for this shot so far. The first version didn’t have the two characters far enough apart. It felt wrong when one of them turned around and flew in the other direction - it was taking too long for them to meet. I tried a version where we start on the yellow guy and pull further and further ahead until we see the red guy come into frame. I just couldn’t seem to get the camera move right on that one, so I decided to just go with making the yellow guy further behind for the whole thing. This might change.

You can either watch it on it’s own here, or as part of the whole sequence here

The two characters in this shot will probably both be live-action, although, if that wasn’t working with the yellow guy, I wouldn’t feel too bad about making him a digital double, as he’s going to be so small on screen. If we end up going for the kind of shot I described above, though, he’ll certainly start as live-action, probably with a digital-double hand-off part-way through.

The red guy will, obviously, be live-action all the way through. How we’re going to shoot the flying live-action characters, I don’t know yet. If anyone’s got any experience doing this kind of thing, I’d love to hear from you (do post a comment, or, if you’d rather, e-mail me).

For the backgrounds, I’m planning a combination of 3D buildings for the foreground, and layered billboards for the more distant ones,

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