ipod look stock footage?

[Brian Dugan]

[Mark Suszko]

There is a stock company that supplies generic footage of people with alpha channel masks already included, I want to say it’s VEER, but It may be someone else. Still, I too would probably “roll my own”, it would be faster, cheaper, and more closely resemble your actual vision of the shot because you arranged it.

In a pinch (like it’s late at night already and due in the morning)
you can use Poser to create a quick individual shadow or a whole crowd and render as shilouettes. This is good for one of those foreground elements of people in front of a stage. Old versions of Poser are free downloads and sometimes given away in magazines like DIGIT or COMPUTER ARTS. I think half my graphics tools at home came out of the free giveaway versions from those mags:-)

Too, you and one other person can be layered dozens of times in most compositing programs.

[George Socka]

Hemera in their retail packages of 5 billion plus photo objects. Under $100 at Staples up here. Their other stock is expensive. They work great in Flash as well.