You may remember last year I created a video Christmas card for my work colleagues. I've made another this year. I intended to do less animation and from further away in an attempt to reduce the time required but I'm not sure I achieved that. There are loads of tweaks I could do, particularly with Micky's hand gestures while he is talking, but I felt I had to make do with the first "that will do" or I wouldn't finish before next Christmas. At the start I also felt that the story wasn't that great - I was trying to do Dickens' a Christmas Carol in 5 minutes while swapping in as many cash machine / company references as I can. At the end though, I am pleased with how it has come together.
Any Santa / Micky is an anim8or created overlay (chroma keyed)
The window blinds are an anim8or overlay
(If I did it again I would have anim8ed the boxes falling off the window sill, there is a gap between the boxes falling and the blind moving because I can't let the boxes appear in front of the animated blind because the chroma keyed overlay is infront of the boxes in the video.)
The ghost of Christmas yet to come is a hacked stl model that I found on the net, hacked and made into an overlay in anim8or. I can let the racks appear infront of the ghost because neither are moving so I have a static chroma key mask to make the overlay appear to be behind the racks.
Merry Christmas