Video, 3D and 2D

LostAndFound · Post by **LostAndFound** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:17 am

Dear all,

Cleaning up my HD I found an image sequence we made, my wife and I, long.. long.. long time ago. Our idea was to play with Video, 3D and 2D. The character was made in Former Moho, the 3D elements in Maya and the integration in Adobe After Effects.

Sorry for the quality but I could not find the original files.

http://www.roblearce.com/Moho/TheCook.mov

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:46 am

Nice compositing! Very well done!

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:52 am

nice.

y en español!

IsraelRN · Post by **IsraelRN** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:45 am

Awesome!

Pretty well done, how have you done the camera tracking? Could you share some tips on this?

Best Regards,
Israel RN

LostAndFound · Post by **LostAndFound** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:05 am

Well, we used Maya Life for tracking. which comes with the Unlimited Version.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/it ... id=7639513

The most import part was to decide where to take the video, because we needed clear reference points to help the tracking system. As you can see, we used my kitchen which has these rectangular ceramic pieces, they were very useful.
http://www.roblearce.com/Moho/kitchen.jpg
Now, there are more advanced systems that do not require to be so picky with the references, like Boujou, the problems is the price.
http://www.2d3.com/

For the 2D part we used inside Maya a 2D plane as a reference, this was replaced by a image sequence of the animation made in "Moho".

In After Effects we put everything together and added the particles for the "makeup"

Basically that..and a lot of patient

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:42 am

Nice work LostAndFound!

IsraelRN Here's a link on using Icarus for tracking. Which it's no longer freeware but you can still find the free version on the net. Just needs a script written that can be used with AnimeStudio.
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html

And there's also Voodoo Camera Tracker.
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/download.html

IsraelRN · Post by **IsraelRN** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:01 pm

J. Baker wrote:Nice work LostAndFound!

IsraelRN Here's a link on using Icarus for tracking. Which it's no longer freeware but you can still find the free version on the net. Just needs a script written that can be used with AnimeStudio.
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html

And there's also Voodoo Camera Tracker.
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/download.html

Thank you very much, J.Baker i appreciate your help.

Best Regards,
Israel RN

HassleHead · Post by **HassleHead** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:27 pm

It looked great. Nice job.

Video, 3D and 2D

Video, 3D and 2D

Camera Tracking