This video is a fantastic example of how, when done well, traditional methods of animation can work with new technology. In the video the head of the puppet has an almost stop-motion look to it which the rest of the video didn't have. I was completly confused as to how this was produced because the movements of the head looked too convincing to be super-imposed.
Two sets were used and Jack had to keep his head still as possible whilst performing his song. This footage of Jack's face was frame-cut every five frames to create the stop-motion look. The footage was then motion tracked to the puppet's head (marked with a cross).
I was searching the internet earlier to try and find out how this technique was achieved when I found the Digital Arts website which had an online article about the video.
(http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8050)The person responsible for the head was post house Clear's Marcus Wood who used Flame to help pull-off the idea of traditional animation but with a modern twist.
Two sets were used and Jack had to keep his head still as possible whilst performing his song. This footage of Jack's face was frame-cut every five frames to create the stop-motion look. The footage was then motion tracked to the puppet's head (marked with a cross).
"... although the idea is simple, all that tracking makes it a time-consuming project," explained Marcus Wood (Clear's VFX artist).
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