Character With Hand - 1st Experiment

I did an experiment in Adobe After Effects combining video and a simple animated 2D vector based character. My aim was to give the illusion of these two elements interacting.

I shot a simple short video of my own hand on my phone. When I come to take footage for my actual project I will use a DCLR camera with a plain white background. 

I imported this video into After Effects and imported my charter that I created in Adobe Illustrator into the same After Effects file but as a separate composition, so that each layer of the character would be separate in order for me to animate.

I used keyframes to animate each part of my character and also it's overall position so that it looked like it was being flicked over by my hand. 

Although this was only a very short animation, I now know that it is possible for me to animate a 2D vector based character interacting with video footage in this way.