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frazavi
10-31-2005, 11:27 AM
Hi

I am trying to find some ready keyed images of a few casual characters standing and sitting. These will be composited into animation of a timelapse showing a living space throughout the day. There will be a little motion blur on the characters and the timelapse is quite quick (1 sec of anim = 1 hour of time) so I can get away with low-med quality images and inconsistencies in the images.

I can't find a cost effective way of doing this. Does anyone know where I can get a collection of images (with alpha mattes) like this?

Really appreciate any help.
SOE digital
10-31-2005, 03:10 PM
You're really gonna need to give more details on exactly what you are after.
frazavi
10-31-2005, 04:43 PM
ok...I have about 6secs of CG footage of a living space. This is meant to be a timelapse over 6hours showing lights coming on and off, tv etc I think you get the picture. Now the one thing it really needs to communicate quite a lot in a few seconds is to show people moving in and out of the space in timelapse fashion. I am planning to do this in post rather than use cg characters. To do this I need a good set of images of 2/3 people from different angles, standing, sitting etc. Then I'll composite them in After Effects or something - a bit of manual work, but for 6 secs its not a big deal. Its important that the images have an alpha channel otherwise I'll end up spending a long time dropping out the backdrop on each image.

Hope this makes my question clearer
tufif
10-31-2005, 10:36 PM
I have no idea where to find something like this. You may end up having to take the pictures yourself. I don't suppose you have a green screen do you?
frazavi
11-01-2005, 12:06 PM
some of the walls in my house are a nice morrocan yellow :)
I don't really have the resources (or time) to take such images.

Well I suppose I could pose some cg characters - I'm reluctant to do this because its not something I do very well and will take some time.

Thanks for the suggestion
JoshKirk
11-01-2005, 06:06 PM
Id just take about 4 pictures of 3 people and extract them in Photoshop, take about 5 minutes a picture tops
frazavi
11-01-2005, 06:14 PM
I think I would need about 10 shots x 3 people = 30 shots. I suppose this is not a bad solution really - could be done quite quickly if the shots are setup well. Just don't know where to find the people to photograph! (I'm a company of one and my wife is camera shy)

Thanks for the help
tharrell
11-01-2005, 06:17 PM
You might be interested in this:

http://www.marlinstudios.com/products/people/people.htm

It's a CD of pre-keyed people to be used in architectural projects. I think they have a couple of them.

--T
frazavi
11-01-2005, 06:23 PM
thanks..I took at look it this earlier - great for architectural stuff where you just what people walking around. Would not work so well for my project because I need a few people standing, sitting etc in different poses
tufif
11-01-2005, 10:05 PM
You could always try something like poser. You could use premade poses and characters. Should save you some time.
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