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You may end up using After Effects to blend your clips together but only your production designer can help you decide how to shoot it. The reason I can't help you much is that your description makes different pictures in my head than it does in yours. There are a billion ways to transform one character into another and rotating is probably one of them. But shooting effects plates is more of a production problem than an After Effects problem. Force your director to figure out how he wants the effect to look, storyboard it carefully, and then, using what you know of the vast collection of shooting techniques and effects software on the market, decide how to do it.  Sorry if that sounds circular but you need to know what you're shooting before you shoot it. don't shoot it and then try to figure out how to post it.  There are four or more excellent books on the subjects of shooting for effects and production planning. one of them is "Digital Compositing" by Doug Kelly, Coriolis Press 

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