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VFX Techniques: Tracking Objects onto a Face

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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VFX Courses Visual Effects Courses Color Grading Courses Motion Graphics Courses Compositing Courses

Course Description

Overview

Shows how to build complex composites with After Effects and mocha, where motion graphics are mapped to live-action footage of an actor's face.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • What you need to know about this course
1. Getting Started
  • Breakdown of the final comp
  • Review of the image sequences
  • Setting up the project in After Effects
2. Applying Digital Makeup
  • Rotoscoping tracking marks
  • Disguising marks with grading and noise
  • Rotoscoping the foreground
  • Removing remaining track marks
3. Planar Tracking with mocha
  • Preparing the footage for tracking
  • Setting up a mocha project
  • Planar tracking a face
  • Adjusting planar surfaces
  • Looking at the Curve Editor
4. Importing and Applying Tracking Data
  • Importing track data from mocha
  • Adjusting corner pin curves
  • Fine-tuning tracked artwork
  • Adding a second tracking layer in mocha
  • Offsetting the planar surface
5. Preparing a Motion Graphic Heads-Up Display
  • Animating an artificial camera
  • Animating text
  • Wrapping up the motion graphics
6. Adjusting Tracked Artwork and 3D Layers
  • Tracking the heads-up display
  • Fabricating geometry and shadows
  • Adding highlights and light effects
7. Color Grading and Rendering
  • Applying color and light effects
  • Batch rendering the final comp
  • Looking at the final scene
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Lee Lanier

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