La Bottega degli Amici Immaginari ("The Workshop of Imaginary Friends") was my first attempt at using mocap for 3D animations. Mocap's skeleton was very different from Edgar's character design, so we decided to use it as a reference for the hand made animations. I think this gives him a more likeable mix of cartoon and realistic, what do you think?

All the movie was animated at 12 fps instead of 24 (more similar to the old hand-drawed cartoons) to give it that "classic animated style".

Here's what an animation looks like while we animators work on it: anything that can be a distraction is deleted, only the essential remains:

And this is the final look of the scene:

I hope you like it! Leave a comment if you like it!