compositing the background took some time, but it all worked out. I needed to rebuild the 3D layout in after effects to make it all work out in a way in witch I was happy. I simply placed the old animation in the set for now to get a good feel of the timing and depth the keys would have to be at for the next step.
below is a screen shot of where i add the new stage photos in with some masking, where i couldn’t Photoshop it cleanly, so there was a foreground and background layer of the stage. This was a bit tricky when i needed to animate the mask, but it all worked the way i planed.
Below is a screen shot of a typical 3D layout for my shots with two stage layers, backdrop layers and any characters seen in the shot, for some i would also add a camera. There are one or two pans and some other shots where the camera is needed to utilises the lighting set up. 
Lighting is very important i really want shadows and direction from the lighting to play a big part in the shots. i have add them where i believe they will give the desired effect, but until i have characters with the right colours i can’t tell for sure. From the test i have made i can’t see any big problems coming up.
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