The Company We Keep is a 15-minute CG-animated episode from the Secret Level anthology series. The exciting journey into the company’s great offices of cutting-edge animation and storytelling is available on Amazon Prime. Insights come from Senior Producer Sini Lindberg at Goodbye Kansas. She talks about the emotional depth that the actors’ performances brought to the project, which was crucial in setting the tone for the story. VFX Supervisor Gianni Aliotti compares side-by-side the live-action actors Brenock O’Connor and Raffey Cassidy with their digital doubles, demonstrating how seamless the integration of live action and animation is.
Bengt-Anton Runsten the director reflects the casting process through the behind-scene stories of day one of production and how most of the artists took to first-time motion captures. The synthesis of these effects has made it stand out so much that now, The Company We Keep comes out as perhaps the best proof of how this blending of two arts can turn into a highly interesting narrative. Goodbye Kansas Studios
