Hasta La Motion!

I think some of you might have a bit of fun with this one. Doing some FX work for a period feature, and theres a scene which requires an elephant strolling down a road with a King sitting on a box-like attachment on top, and crowds on both sides of the street cheering on. This is a locked shot.

For budget reasons, they can’t bring the elephant on set – so it needs to be shot separately at the Elephant’s living space.

Now so far, our idea is to shoot the Elly where it lives against green matte WITH the box attachment on top of her (we’ll keep her safe 🙂 ) as she walks and we comp that back into the street plate. We would also need to comp the King, shot on green matte, back into the box as well (because the actor’s contract won’t allow him to take safety risks)

Other issues might be that we might need to comp some soldiers or guards in front of the elephant’s feet walking, in case we can’t get good keying on the elephant’s feet or because of a lack of a green matte limbo.

Can anybody think of any red-flags here, or any issues or advice? We are a small setup and can’t afford to model the elephant etc. Thanks for any suggestions!