Here's a later version of the same scene I uploaded yesterday. This time, some tests for the character elements have been added. The characters have basic moving part elements, in the case of William here, the head, torso and legs are all seperate planes with hand drawn images on them. The majority of the background is also flat planes with hand drawn images. Some elwments such as cars, trees, flowers, etc are photographed. Filters, colours and mattes were applied in photoshop to everything, giving it a nice wacky blend of styles. (This also applies to details like the orb of light around the street light. A bitmap and a matte for transparency). I threw ray traced shadows and used a video filter on the render. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I could improve on the look of this animation experiment, I'd be glad to hear them.