The second, Takes One, shot has the exact same couple holding hands and on fire. The background painting is the same but has warm washes over it4 to give an orange glow. I thought I could replace elements in the previous After Effects scene but that scene wasn’t saved properly. I had to start from scratch and create a new depth map for the background.
There are three separate layers of smoke clouds and I exported each separately in case I wanted to inmate them. Flames needed to be animated to get them to work with the walking figures and to keep them in place as background people moved due to parallax.
I debated about animating a second step but that would be overkill. Each shot flashes by for just 25 frames so no one will have the time to see if the scenes have different animations. I think people will just notice the couple with the fire shot and they will actually notice the Animation with the second shot.
I still think full Animation on some flames could help and I might add that with a later pass at the scene. Breath and spatter effects are kind of lost in all that is happening and I might take a second look at how they are looking when I get back from Key West. I am writing this article on the drive back to Orlando.