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I recently developed a way to do Lego mouth movements in Adobe After Effects that looks pretty good, but it doesn't really blend with its environment. It just looks like a black blob on the figure's mouth expanding and shrinking. I guess it could be considered "good enough", but I'm a perfectionist. Any suggestions for making it react with its environment?
Change the blending mode. Try Multiply or Overlay. Add some blur if it's out of focus.
Change the blending mode. Try Multiply or Overlay. Add some blur if it's out of focus.
Oh, yeah! I kinda figured out the focus part, but I didn't even think of changing the blending mode! Thanks! 
I usually put my mouth layer at about 90% opacity and never set the color to perfect black. Use another black part of the shot or the minifig as a reference for what black should look like. Also, AE has a neat effect called Roughen Edges that I use to give some texture to the edges of the mouth mask. If that's not necessary I just adjust the mask feather.
Just colour correct to the colour of the eyes.
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