Camera Tracking
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- DirtyShit
anyone konw anywhere on animatiing vehicles at all im try to figure out how to track a shot from a dv cam and add cg vehicles.similair to the vehicles that were added in any car chase scenes in recent action movies.i havent been able to find much on vehicle or animationg vehicles without having to pay to see a tutorial.
- SuperBig0
What Program? Afer Effects? Combustion? Other?
- quamb0
thats a pretty big job- especially if the camera is moving in a car and with low budget dv equipment.
- DirtyShit0
im not worried about scope of job i just want to figure it out. the tracking is over. we need to animate the vehicles. but i need to do things like build there suspension and have them react at least so it looks liek thre driving on aroad...
- superbaka0
ive worked on vehicles for several big feature films. you can do a few things, like path-based animation (draw splines and cars follow) or rig the car like a character with bones and keyframe animate everything.
ive never heard of a show attempting to matchmove the street geometry from the plate and have a cg car react to it, tho.
usually you rig the wheels with expressions to turn at the correct speed, and right+left. also body roll, etc, and have the car follow your curves.
also, make sure to have the mm camera actually moving in 3d space, as opposed to rotating nodally about the origin.