Hasta La Motion!

My name is Sreenath, I am a CG Generalist based in India. I started out by obtaining a Diploma in 3D Animation (Maya, 3DS Max, After Effects & Premiere) specializing in Lighting & Rendering, which eventually lead me to CG pass compositing in Fusion. I know my way around Fusion, and After Effects as well. I come from a photography/photomanipulation background (Hence, the lighting specialization), if you guys have the time, you can check out:

www.dark-awakening.deviantart.com, for most of my photomanipulations.

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I am based in a small town here which doesn’t have too many studios/VFX houses (2 large animation studios + some small VFX houses that come and go). Just got started in compositing, I was wondering if someone could point me to a resource where I can get some footage to practice compositing with? Green Screen Footage, Backplates etc. Is there even an online free resource for this? I tried googling it, got a few results but the videos turned out to be bad to horrible quality (<–Low-res samples I guess).

Anyway, I would really appreciate any help on this. Also, I have a question…. Is there any online job-board like mandy.com that a Compositing fresher can go to and find some (paid/unpaid not a problem) online work in exchange for experience?

Thank you for any help on the matter. 🙂 Cheers.