Blender Sin City Animation

Started learning Blender over lockdown and this is my first finished project. Was looking to reproduce the original Frank Miller ‘Sin City’ look in an animation - super high-contrast black-and-white, limited details. The basic look is achieved with a couple of variations on the standard cell/toon shader set up. The live action footage for the main character was put through Runway to remove the background, then batch-processed through Photoshop for the threshold effect and finally back into Blender. This was all done on the fly as I was mainly just testing the technique; if I do something like this again I’ll probably spend more time lighting the live action footage to complement the scene. But still quite happy with the look. The other characters were all taken from Mixamo, with odd bits of minor remodelling here and there. Shout out to the Blender community which is by far the most generous and supportive out there. Literally every conceivable question is answered somewhere if you look hard enough... Hope you enjoy.