Previs Screen shots

I'm now putting a Previs together, using playblasts from Maya and importing into Premiere...
blocking out camera moves, timings and checking against the animatic...
Below are a few screen shots of the original Photoshop images in the animatic, above the corresponding rendered screenshot in Maya...
The Maya shots are yet to be lit correctly, with final materials and comp, but these shots will give me an impression of the timings and where I need to adjust...

Shot_16 (Photoshop image from my animatic). Brendan Body suggested that the ice men are shown in contrast against the background, so that the focus of the scene is clear to the audience; and that the background should be simple and atmospheric...

Shot_17 (Maya render screen shot from the Previs. Woman's hand will be live action and filmed in the green screen studio and comped in Nuke. Using a contrasting, atmospheric and more simple backdrop

When I created the playblast the model disappeared....after reading some frustrated rants in Maya

forums (!) I discovered that other people had the same problem....simply change the renderer settings in the panel from 'Viewport 2.0' to 'Legacy Default Viewport'. It resulted in the model material changing and the ice men looking mysteriously purple (quite nice, but not icy!); but none the less, for Previs purposes this is ok....

Shot_17 (Photoshop image from my animatic) the woman will be live action and filmed in the green screen studio and then comped in Nuke.

Shot_17 Maya screen shot in the Previs

Shot_18 (Photoshop image from my animatic). As shot 16 Brendan Body suggested that the ice men are shown in contrast against the background, so that the focus of the scene is clear to the audience; and that the background should be simple and atmospheric...

Woman to be live action and filmed in the green screen studio

Shot_18 Previs screen shot in Maya (final materials, textures, lighting) to be completed....

Shot_23_water_droplet (Photoshop image from animatic)

Shot_23_rendered_image from Previs. Live action hand to be filmed in green screen studio. Fog, junk and God Rays to be comped in Nuke