Compositing People

[NumButt]

Does anyone know of anywhere you can get people ready to use for vis scenes?

Ideally a collection/library of people masked ready to be photoshoped into a scene. I don't want to use RPC and the other companies that offer lowpoly people, whilst good, are not good enough under close scrutiny.

How do you guys do this? Do you go out and take photos on an individual basis and cut them out of the photo by hand, if so how do you manage to fit that into your timescale?

It's an interesting one......

[travistlo]

Do a search for image cel. They have high res people and other stuff with alpha map included.

[thablanch]

If possible, I'm using co-workers, that I place in the position I want the person to be in the perspective. Also, you can try some online librairies of prefessionnal pictures, like
http://www.gettyimages.com
they have a royalte free section,
Yes, takes a few minutes to do the alpha channel, but it is way better, imo, than r.p.c. stuff