Fire light in stop motion

[alegandro]

Hello you all! English is not my native leaguage, I hope you excuse my mistakes.

So, here’s the thing. I am shooting a 60 secs stop motion with puppets, where the puppets must be set on fire. Fire is going to be animated in 2D animation. I am wondering how can I light this scene, so that fire seems to come from the puppets. I want it to be the more organic as possible.

Do you have any idea on mind? I appreciate your help. Thank you so much!!

Here’s a still from a test we did. This is our scene and the fire starts when we go to the reverse shot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uYNh5JnEScTl056KGQ0ICE14VghSCbnw/view?usp=sharing

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[Roger Deakins]

If the fire on the characters is animate does it need more than a little interactive firelight hitting the areas on which they are sitting? I would suggest the main issue will be the flicker of the firelight and syncing that between what light is in camera and the 2D animation.

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