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One of my favorite shots in Overwatch League - Legacy is the penguin shot at 7:27. I wanted a shot that implied a third party / spectator within the game itself (like an audience surrogate) leading into the final match, which the penguins were ideally suited for. Plus, penguins are cute. On paper, it's a simple shot, the camera doesn't move at all. But it's not quite as simple as it looks at the surface. For starters, the penguins were never meant to be seen from this angle. There were additional shadows that needed to be painted out, since no actual penguins are visible to create the extra shadows. Since the camera doesn't move, @Nora_0ra painted out the shadows in photoshop and created a matte that I could just place over and cover the shadows completely. Each individual penguin is also masked out from the background. This is because the penguins have a set animation loop that has a noticeable start and stop where they "reset," so I desynchronized the penguins with the Florida team rollout. Also I wanted the left walking penguin to be walking during the shot, rather than already be offscreen when Florida begins to roll out. If the shot continued any longer you'd see Mer1t just vanish in thin air as he collides with the mask for the rightmost penguin, but it ends basically right before that happens. Each individual penguin is also not quite synced with their counterparts, I wanted both the middle penguins to move one after the other, so I ended up cutting them both out from each other and moving their movements closer together to have the penguins just be more active. @JoeDeWitter suggested a little SFX for the penguin, so I added a short penguin trill as Uber begins speaking. Then, once all stacked together, I colored the shot as two halves, one for the penguins and one for the background. Penguins are cool.