Hasta La Motion!

So, the photographer was supposed to have shot something on a 90 degree angle (bird’s eye / zenith) but that wasn’t possible, so he shot it at about 70 degrees and now I have to "fix it it post". How can I do that in AE? I thought it would be a simples distortion, like in photoshop, but there is no such transform control

Hello everyone, I’m new here and this is my first post so here it goes.
I’m working on my final for my Intro to Vfx class at the Art Institute of Las Vegas. What I want to do is shoot a friend of mine walking across a green screen, then I’m going to stabilize the footage in AE, key it, then export the frames of her walk cycle to photoshop, throw some filters on it to make it look hand drawn, print out each frame, rotoscope it by hand on a lightbox, then scan it back in and comp it in AE so that the actress starts out hand drawn and when she passes by a large object that obscures her she becomes real on the other side.

My question is, where in the world can I find a green screen long enough to catch several walk cycles at a time? Our blue room at school would only be long enough for maybe 5 or 6 steps at most. I’ve thought about shooting her against the sky, but in order to do that I would have to probably be at the top of a parking garage, shooting from a low angle. I also thought about rearranging the whole living room to set up a large green screen, but my girlfriend might not appreciate that too much. I also thought about building a portable green screen and having it track her as she walks, but it would be almost impossible to get all of her with it, so i’ll be rotoscoping masks on feet if I do that.

Is there anything I am missing? any tricks for shooting green screen elements over a distance of about 30 or 40 feet on the quick and cheap?

Also, I’m not sure how i’m going to go about framerates at this point. I think I want to animate on 2s but i’m not sure how that will be effected if the comp is running at 30fps. That’s just going to take some experimentation on my part though.

Thanks in advance guys!

Hello everyone, new member here with first post.

So I recently noticed that a lot of TV programs have actors with amputated limbs (i.e. Michael Shanks from Stargate Continuum, Genevieve Cortese from the latest Flash Forward, Suleka Mathew from Hawthorne) and I was wondering what was the best method of creating these digital amputations?

I was thinking of rotoing the leg out and having a clean plate in the back to fill in the gap but unless it’s a locked off shot, it seems the process would be time-consuming. I was also thinking that the limb is roto-ed out and then the background is painted back in.

Does anyone know of possible methods to recreate these digital amputations?

Hi all,
I am vey new to 3D comping, for example:
Taking an image and creating a dolly in/parallax move.

I have an image of a house. I broke the image up into 3 sections via Bezier. Street (foreground) House (midground) and backyard (background. I separated them in Z space.

I created some trees and placed them in front of and behind the house. (Z SPACE) I then added a camera and pushed in.

Great, looks good, However, my question is this:
How do you know if mathimatically, the parallax is correct?
For example, If I separate(distance) the foreground trees from the house, 2x, 3 times,4 times, I will get a greater parallax. So which is correct? How do I know if all of my images on CARDS, are at the right distance so they move accurate?

Am I making any sense?
Thanks,
Lou

Hi, im having a big problem with viewing what I have done so far, when I try to render preview (pressing the play icon) it will get to the end of the frames and start rendering over and over again and won’t stop. What am I doing wrong :S?