A few words from Lancelot Squeeze...

Following on from the filming for the lip-synch and having edited that together and got the timing down so I'm fairly happy with it, a couple of videos. Still to be done is the colour correction and treatment of the RAWs (the high quality pics taken before being converted and run together as a video sequence), the compositing of the puppet/Poppet footage into the foreground (which I'm still animating and filming) and crops/camera movements (which will be done in Adobe After Effects, along with the compositing).

There's still some way to go with the lighting (but pleased with the progress) and with getting the animation of Lance Squeeze - I don't want to lose the 'jerky' look, but do want to exaggerate the facial expressions, movements and timing for these.

Here are the videos:

Lip-synch test 1:

(...and on the bit-better-quality Vimeo)

Lip synch test 2:

(...and, once again, on Vimeo)

Lastly, an initial quick treatment of one of the JPEG frames to give an approximation of the sort of colour-corrected look I want to go with - darker, cooler, more contrasty, quite desaturated: