Digital Tutors - Match Moving and Compositing Pipeline in Maya 2011 and After Effects



Digital Tutors - Match Moving and Compositing Pipeline in Maya 2011 and After Effects
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In this series of lessons we'll learn how to take some footage and move it through the entire MatchMover to Maya to After Effects pipeline to create a finished shot. By going through the entire pipeline, we will be able to learn about specific issues and tips and tricks while moving between and inside each application.


We'll begin this project by solving four of our shots in MatchMover and combining them in Maya into a cohesive 3d scene. Then we'll create our last camera in Maya and match it. Once all our camera are set-up, we'll learn how to model our object, create dynamics, animate, texture and render our scene. We'll then jump into After Effects to do some color treatment on our backgrounds and then composite our layers together. Now, this is a long project that will take some time to complete. If you get stuck or have any questions, please join our forums and ask. We check the forums often and have a very active and helpful community.


Lesson Outline (76 lessons)


1. Introduction and Project Overview


2. Examining the shots and the footage


3. Creating a plan to keep our shots consistent for Maya


4. Manually tracking shot two


5. Manually tracking shot three


6. Manually tracking shot four


7. Creating the coordinate system for shot four


8. Manually tracking shot five


9. Integrating our various matchmoves into one scene


10. Continuing to integrate our shots together in Maya


11. Creating low-quality previews in Composite for use in Maya


12. Offsetting our cameras and image planes to play correctly


13. Hand-matching a camera inside Maya


14. Matching the table orientation on shot 1 cam


15. Constraining a preview camera to move with our shots


16. Testing our matchmove inside Maya and fixing any issues


17. Modeling the pyramid asset


18. Extruding and Beveling our pyramid


19. Modeling the interior of the pyramid


20. Animating the first shot - Pyramid sliding across the table


21. Animating the second shot - Pyramid opens


22. Creating emitters for our nParticles


23. Animating the emitters in sync with the doors opening


24. Adding Newton and Drag forces to draw our particles into the air


25. Keeping our nParticles in the pyramid and creating a vortex


26. Creating the goal models for our particles


27. Animating the goals on and off to create the transitions


28. Using a Gravity force to create falling particles


29. Caching our particles and instancing geometry


30. Bringing in our HDR image for indirect lighting


31. Adding direct lighting sources


32. Creating a material for our pyramid


33. Using projection techniques to vary particle color by distance


34. Animating the particle projection to stay with our particles


35. Animating the particle ramp and beginning our table shader


36. Creating a clean plate and reflection map for shot 1


37. Projecting our reflection map onto our geometry


38. Setting up basic render passes and layers


39. Changing our Ambient Occlusion pass for the best results


40. Choosing the file type and frame buffer for compositing


41. Rendering with multiple cameras and fixing the preview cam


42. Overriding render layers to render each camera separately


43. Creating a layer to output a particle matte pass


44. Creating the reflection height shader and pass


45. Doing final checks on render settings and batch rendering


46. Dealing with mental ray® 'out of memory' errors


47. Color correcting our shots for consistency in After Effects


48. Using the Exposure and Curves Effects to CC shot 2


49. Fixing shot 3 with color correction and Keying effects


50. Reusing color correction effects to save time on shot 4


51. Tracking the table and beginning the color correction in shot 5


52. Using a luma keyer to finish shot 5


53. Setting up our project and using EXtractoR effects


54. Combining our basic color passes and precomping


55. Combining passes to create a proper foreground alpha


56. Using our Clean Plate to fix the shot 1 background


57. Adding the reflection to our background


58. Cutting out the reflection and combining it correctly


59. Lightwrapping and blurring to composite with background


60. Adding AO to the background and masking the foreground


61. Adding DOF using Lens blur and using Minimax to fix edges


62. Adding motion blur using our motion vector pass with RSMB


63. Fixing the background ambient occlusion and the blurred mask


64. Using Keying techniques to fix depth in shot 2


65. Creating an expansive ground shadow using existing images


66. Removing the visible markers using our own setup


67. Using the particle matte to color correct our particles


68. Adding shot 2 motion blur and fixing our blurs to finish shot 2


69. Converting Shot 2 to Shot 3 and fixing various issues


70. Cleaning the background with masking and layering techniques


71. Converting Shot 3 to Shot 4 and fixing depth blurs


72. Using the Tracker to remove our Markers


73. Converting shot 4 to shot 5 and fixing alpha issues


74. Fixing the reflections by manually masking our layers


75. Making last minute color correction tweaks and fixing mattes


76. Removing the shadow in shot 3 and viewing our final shots




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