Lighting and Shadow Tests

Using ambient light at different values and different places. I experimented with shadows because maybe it could look like a pop up book which would have shadows but maybe for this animation I should keep it shadow free and keep the 2D look in a 3D space, plus in a still render it looks ok-ish but in a batch render it would look unnatural for a pop up book to move and bounce, plus Dr Seuss books don't have any real world shadows only hatched line marks. 

At the bottom is a shadow test video, I don't like the shadows plus the batch render had different lighting to the single renders so tried to brighten it up in after effects. I don't think the singles renders saved as their true values either despite colour management turned on...

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Default Shadows

Lighter shadows and light placed high

Light placed low

Light placed to right of camera