With the unemployment shot, I decided to animate the hazmat walkers. They were all in lockstep which made it pretty easy. The walker with the red cross apron was even easier since the legs are out of shot. I just had to bob the figure up and down with the step. I considered moving the arms slightly, but for some reason the pin tool in After Effects wasn’t working.
I also found that the hands and masks were partly transparent because of the green screen. I finally realized that the greenish blue masks and gloves were dropping out because of the green screen. So I experimented with different colored green screens. a purple screen was worse, changing the colors of the shot. This blue screen was what finally worked. There has to be a way to export a shot with transparency, but I haven’t been able to work it out yet.