The book cover for Illegal Astronauts, Book 1 was produced through compositing several layers together following a design guidelines booklet for the Illegal Astronauts brand I had prepared previously. The primary elements are the pixel dot background, the figure in the space suit, and the red frame with the text.

Since these elements were already separated and layered in the static version of the cover, this allowed for the unique opportunity to animated the cover. I did this by taking the figure in the space suit and producing a video of the animation on a green screen colored background. Then, I took this new video and the other two layers into Adobe After Effects. Here, I chroma keyed out the green screen background and stacked the layers to produce the example you see here.