VFX Techniques: Tracking Objects onto a Face
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- Breakdown of the final comp
- Review of the image sequences
- Setting up the project in After Effects
- Rotoscoping tracking marks
- Disguising marks with grading and noise
- Rotoscoping the foreground
- Removing remaining track marks
- Preparing the footage for tracking
- Setting up a mocha project
- Planar tracking a face
- Adjusting planar surfaces
- Looking at the Curve Editor
- Importing track data from mocha
- Adjusting corner pin curves
- Fine-tuning tracked artwork
- Adding a second tracking layer in mocha
- Offsetting the planar surface
- Animating an artificial camera
- Animating text
- Wrapping up the motion graphics
- Tracking the heads-up display
- Fabricating geometry and shadows
- Adding highlights and light effects
- Applying color and light effects
- Batch rendering the final comp
- Looking at the final scene
- Next steps
Taught by
Lee Lanier
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