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    motion tracking-animation on paper

    Posted by Adam Chesbrough on February 1, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    I want to make to stick animations (.mov’s) to a blank sheets of paper that I shot to make it look like the .mov’s are on that piece of paper. Terrible explanation so I have attached example files.

    Paper: Main media
    Buchwalter: example media that I want to “live” on the first sheet of paper

    The animation: As the paper is slide onto the table I want buchwalter to seem like it is part of the paper, but playing in real time. As you can see I put a dot in the middle of the paper to track the motion but I guess it is too small and moves in and out of the frame.

    Maybe this just needs to be keyframed? Either way, this seems like a basic effect to do; but unforunatly after effects isn’t my thing.

    Could someone please explain how they would do this. If the paper needs to be reshot then that is fine (maybe place more motion tracker points. That or does anyone do freelance graphic animation in brooklyn?

    Videos:
    Paper: https://reels.creativecow.net/film/paper
    Buckwalter: https://reels.creativecow.net/film/buckwalter

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    Vishesh Arora replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Vishesh Arora

    February 2, 2013 at 6:45 am

    adam

    AE native Motion Tracker wont be able to track the shot completely as is it tracks the pixels. The blank sheet paper is going off the screen which will create the problem.

    You need a Planar Tracking System like Mocha AE(comes with AE CS% and above) for tracking this shot.

    You can start from here :

    Fundamentals of mocha

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

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    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

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  • Adam Chesbrough

    February 4, 2013 at 8:37 pm

    Thanks Vishesh, I’ll give this a go.

    Macbook Pro Retina: 2.6GHZ i7, 16GB RAM 1600MHz DDR3, GT 650M 1GB RAM

    Hackintosh (Sandy Bridge): i5 2500, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3, Nvidia GT640 2GB RAM

    OWC 4TB RAID0 (using esata)
    Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 (6Gb/s)
    Echo ExpressCard Pro Thunderbolt Adapter

  • Vishesh Arora

    February 4, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    Glad to help

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    2011 3D Demo Reel:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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