Creative COW | Stephen Pickering | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/stephenpickering/activity/ Activity feed for Stephen Pickering. Fri, 15 May 2026 14:59:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 2abc21836cd61191d4aec15e0f72c747 Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476469 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:15:17 +0000 Reply to Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

Thank you. I’ll try the 1 frame trick. That’s what was frustrating me- waiting for a full video only to find that the character is now wearing a plastic sleeve andd tattoos all over.

]]> 187297bba1eaecdb5a3f7baf424bb5b0 Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476465 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:33:49 +0000 Reply to Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

I appreciate your help on this. Unfortunately, I’m getting very unreliable generations, even following your prompt exactly. I’m using the cloud version. Here’s one of the examples:

]]> 73feaab624cb88d6d3b1269ac25c5a63 Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476463 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:37:28 +0000 Reply to Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

I really appreciate it. I’m watching the tutorial right now!

]]> 38c2c0ece77c914d4f5dab7eb1bd0f6a Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476457 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:43:34 +0000 Reply to Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

Hey John, that looks great. Ideally I would like it centered on the hand, but I’d love to know how you’re doing it. Thank you!

]]> 829732ab642d02b5dacdaae2dbd47096 Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476433 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:04:42 +0000 Reply to Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

Yes, that’s exactly it. I want to have writing on his palm, but I need to be able to modify the writing. My thought was to track it, then I have a pre-comp with the writing that I can modify as needed.

Here’s the file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXsO425KN-0XxeDG0hopLEHT151c9SVJ/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for any suggestions!

drive.google.com

hand open.mov

hand open.mov

]]> f2f2de30944a62b13efd2efa9083d5dc Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/#post-2476431 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:52:17 +0000 11369dcc7dd71248a38ee2abc917e5ed Stephen Pickering started the discussion Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/mocha-pro-mesh-tracking-with-difficult-shadow/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:06:30 +0000 Mocha Pro mesh tracking with difficult shadow

Hi there,

I don’t see a forum for Mocha Pro, so I hope it’s ok to post here.

I have a shot of a hand that I am trying to track with Mocha Pro 2023 (inside AE) and would like to use the mesh track feature to be able to attach a texture to the hand. However, there is a harsh shadow that I just can’t figure out how to work around. It seems the…

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]]> 58527636512244131b04d7f46f527875 Stephen Pickering started the discussion Change opacity of only one element over time in the forum Video Copilot https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/change-opacity-of-only-one-element-over-time/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:22:30 +0000 Change opacity of only one element over time

Hi there,Using Element 3D we have a project that has a vehicle engine and skin/body. We would like to see the whole vehicle but then over time fade off (to 10% opacity) the skin or body, revealing the engine.

The only way I know to do it is to have one Solid layer with Element 3D for the engine, and a second layer with the second instance of…

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]]> 440241a706f69635c4e6e4c59badadaa Stephen Pickering replied to the discussion Using transcripts in edit in the forum Creative Community Conversations https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/using-transcripts-in-edit/#post-2414897 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:29:28 +0000 Reply to Using transcripts in edit

I was so excited to hear about this but unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it to run on our windows machines.

I haven’t given up on this but I don’t hold out much hope for it at the moment. It sounds like it’s still experimental on Windows.

I hope I can get it working because this would be incredible to use for certain rough edits. Thanks…

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]]> 90ac1e1cc59acf34265de1fddc200de1 Stephen Pickering started the discussion Augmented Reality for murals? in the forum Creative Community Conversations https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/augmented-reality-for-murals/ Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:55:19 +0000 Augmented Reality for murals?

Hi there. Not sure where this post is most appropriate. We’ve been getting more and more interested in augmented reality (mostly image markers) and are wondering if any of you have some experience which you could help guide us down the right path (or paths).

In out community we have about 10 permanent murals (and more going up annually). We…

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