My eyeballs are pretty busy right now, but I'll let you know if they're ever available. In addition to eyeballing the live action scenes, the camera was on a tripod and stationary, so the camera "movements" were actually done by the actors being directed by me.

The thought/dream bubbles by themselves were lost amidst the background scenes and the outlining was the only solution I found to get them to stand apart from the background. I do see what you're saying though, cheers.

Your enthusiastic response to this is great, Thanks Richard! Since I sunk a ton of my own funds into this project and don't anticipate making any of it back, the verbal responses I receive mean everything! They are also a deciding factor towards me doing a follow up story or not.

Thanks again mate,
Steven

Hey, that's my video! Thanks for posting here Adam, I appreciate it. (That Svankmajer dude is a little off isn't he?) Thanks for all of the positive responses too.

I wish I had motion capture software, it's really freakin' expensive though and I wouldn't be posting here since SketchUp/LightUp doesn't support it anyway. I would have used it for the camera moves against a marked green-screen backdrop, then matched those camera moves with the 3D scenes. As it was, I did all the camera moves that I wanted with the SketchUp scenes I made, then tried my best to recreate those moves with the actors, basically eyeballing it. The whole thing was made in my bedroom of a one bedroom apartment. My wife wasn't all that thrilled about it, believe it or not...

The links around the video don't seem to be active, here's the video page at Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/36563194

Steven