After Effects Tutorial: A Hampered Attempt
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| 3d tracking +Tracked Solids and Nulls |
Last Friday we were assigned to do a Set Extension tutorial. This involves 3d tracking, masking, matte painting and colour grading. This has been something that I've wanted to know how to do for ages and ages and I am so glad to try and attempt it.
UNFORTUNATELY
I was largely unsuccessful in this tutorial (and believe me, it wasn't through lack of trying). The plugin script (OrientWorld) required to orient solids onto the tracked solids which would eventually be used to mask out the background which would be the base for the matte painting, It would also allow me to successfully integrate 2D assets (e.g. JPEG files) onto the 3D tracked solids, and thus become part of the environment.
Unfortunately the library PCs restrict access to the After Effects CC setup files that need to be accessed to install the plug-in, and so I couldn't find an alternative way to orient the footage into the center of the composition (grrrr).
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