​​In this commercial for the opening of a restaurant in New York City, I was hired to add the restaurants existing characters to footage. I wanted to avoid drawing directly on the frames at all cost, as it would prove time consuming with so many camera moves and make compositing the cartoon characters in a real setting challenging. so my first step was to get good tracking data out After Effects. After hours of analyzing footage I had track data that I was satisfied with. I was then able to set up my scene in Photoshop and work without worrying about camera moves, instead focusing on character proportions and form in a static setting. This workflow proved successful and felt akin to working with green screen. When the character animation was complete I was able to parent the finished frames onto the tracking data in After Effects. A few compositing tricks later and here are the results.