I borrowed headwax's Santa, rigged him and made a Christmas card for my colleagues. I'm the ugly one on the left
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The backdrop was made in anim8or - its some of our company's products wrapped in Christmas paper. There's a reference to "concur" - its our expense claim system. Our department is OEM Langstone.
In the past I have used 2 humanoid characters is presentations, I call them Micky - a blue character and Stu a yellow character. Micky is playing Santa, that's why Santa is blue.
Santa is chroma keyed into the video. All the animation is done in anim8or with a green background (and green masks where required to make the animation appear behind something in the video). The music I found in midi files that I modified in Anvil Studio. The whole composition is put together using Pinnacle Studio 15 with many sub projects, generally one per scene but also when I run out of video tracks (Pinnacle Studio 15 has 2 video tracks, a title overlay track and 2 sound tracks). Pinnacle Studio crashes a lot on my system so I find lots of small projects put together in a simple top level project is most reliable.
Merry Christmas all
