After Effects conundrum
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- harlequino
So I want to create this effect where a noodly stream of light particles flies around buildings and ultimately animates a logo. I'm going to cut between a few aerial shots showing the stages of animation.
For example, this kind of aerial shot:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detaiā¦All the particle stuff, no problem.
But I am stuck at which may be the best approach to matching the movement of the camera so it looks like all the good stuff is really in the shot. The options I have thought of are:
1. Eyeballing it and rotoscoping (probably not great looking)
2. A combination of motion tracking data sets
3. A fancy 3rd party match-move app like Boujou (which I do not have)Any ideas? Am i missing something?
- KwesiJ0
motion tracking and animate a straight mask/matte, buildings don't seem too complicated
- TheTofuFactory0
Yeah I agree with KwesiJ. This should be fairly easy since the object is fairly straight cut.
- harlequino0
So you are saying that motion tracking a building is probably the best way to go?
- harlequino0
Thanks, gents!
- whiteout0
If you use motion tracking get it as close as you can. Create a null layer and set as a parent the orignal tracked layer. At this point you should be able to clean up any slips that will happen in the initial tracking