Our first attempts to use green screen to animate Mr Coconut for the video for Kickstarter…

Our intention is to publish the book with a Kickstarter campaign, and all of the Kickstarter campaign’s we have looked at show the project with a video. So we’re going to make one. Neither of us have made a video before, but we borrowed some equipment, and found that learning a new skill was not just fun, but gave us a whole new set of ideas for how to do the illustrations for the book.

Before making the video we’d imagined the illustrations would be a combination of sketches and Photoshop tweaking. But using Catherine’s Mr Coconut puppet for the video it’s become obvious that what we should really do is combine puppetry, props and a bit of Photoshop.