Compositing the Film

Now that I have all my animation completed, as well as all my renders for my set, all that remains is to combine the two elements into one. To do this, I firstly need to place a blue or green background onto the animation, which can be keyed out using the Key lighting tool in After Effects. See below for example.

The reason I need to add a colour to the background, is because the default background colour on ToonBoom is white, and if I use the key lighting tool to remove this in after effects, well it not only removes the white from the background, but also the white from the Kakapo's eyes and the Owl's body. I chose blue for most scenes, but green on scenes with the Pigeon because the blue was a tad too close to its own colour scheme.

Below is the same scene, after the keylighting had been used to remove the background colour.

The process needs tweaking, but I'm happy with the results, and hopefully bar two scenes that require more advanced editing, the compositing process shouldn't take up too much of my time.