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For the first one I just waited for GC to have a party, for the second I paused the game and posed him. Actually I was thinking of using the overview map for a background (implying GC can fly as well) but this was simpler.
Actually I've been doing this kind of things a lot. Here's an image from my files to prove nothing is sacred.