Hasta La Motion!

I’ve worked on two short films which mostly involded keying and colourcorrections.

There was no real CG comping (though I’ve been doing a bit more of that now) or adding amazing effects to the footage.

Plus, I still haven’t got access to the second one yet as I don’t think it’ll be released for a month or two yet.

I’ve also done some mattepaintings/3dprojections/set extension which I could include, but it’s not great to be honest.

So… What I’m asking is what do people (human resource type folks) think of stock footage, like that from HCW in a reel? And basically, what are my options?

(God, what a negative post…)

I’m trying to learn more about CG and VFX and filmmaking in general so I have a lot of newb questions.

I think I get what roto is (kinda like a frame-by-frame mask so you can cut out part of a shot and paste it onto another?), and I’m pretty sure what green screen is, but I can’t have it straight because it seems like green screen would replace roto. What am I missing here? Why would anyone go through all the work of roto when they could just green screen it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMzHgX0RWU

Anybody know where I can start regarding any kind of green screen or masking and CG?

I am student, producing a short film for my course and have a small idea. There is a scene where a small animated figure is pushing a real liquor bottle away. What we are trying to do is see if there is any other ways we could make the bottle move before we put the animated figure in.

So far the only way we have thought to do it would be to have it connected to a piece of thin string and have someone off scene pulling the bottle.

Is there anything else we could do?

Many thanks

Gregor