A Time Apart: Act 1 End Shot Progress

Today I've been cleaning up the animation for the very last shot of Act 1 and figuring out how to do the shadows with Alan's help, which is basically just a animated plane and a spotlight. The shadow is rendered out as a separate pass and composited, the reason you can't do this all at once is because a shadow is the blocking of light but as you can see in the screen capture below I have lights around Fred which cancel out that shadow.

Composited + Desaturation

Composited Only

Render before composite rendered at: 2:36

Scene Set Up

For this shot I couldn't decide if the second arm action felt right or not so I did a playblast with and without. I don't know which one to go with.