A bitmap image is distorted through warping/morphing to create the distoring of the Awning. The ball was added in after effects where it was all composited.

Here are tests to add 3D to 2D backgrounds from Warping and Morphing the backgrounds as well as using Camera moves in after effects.

A montage of images from Brian Kolm's comic book series Beyond the Great Chimney. www.atomicbearpress.com ©2006 Brian Kolm

Tests I did in After Effects to animate a "cut out puppet" of a knight. The pieces were first sketched on paper and scanned in where I used a texture from a watercolor painting to give it some surface. Inspired by a united airlines add.