Robot Chase

Heres the finished version of the chase sequence featured in the animatic posted below. Im not entirely sure how happy I am with it. The process of making it was quite labored as we were using ToonBoom for this project and it essentially made the process quite drawn out. ToonBoom does some things that After effects does and some things that flash does. But does non of those things as well as those packages. I had to comp the whole thing in aftereffects after animating in toon boo as for some reason the render in TB kept skipping frames when there was a lot happening on screen.
For the look of the piece I was trying to get away from the immediate cartoony feel of the supplied character - so opted to give the backgrounds a German expressionist feel. All pointy with exaggerated shadows - Like the film Dr Cilgari (nice) But i think somewhere I got a little lost in that. Also the finish I applied to the character is a bit forced. However I'm pretty happy in the Direction of the piece, and I managed to get a few chase scene staples in there. There are a couple of rough edges - and I havent yet been able to complete the introduction which has the main character feeding nuts and bolts to small robotic birds - just to frame the sequence in some semblance of understandable narrative.