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Rules of Camera Tracking

  Published by Eugene (etr9j) on March 29th, 2006 in 3D News
camera.jpgComputer Arts has a free tutorial in pdf form entitled "The Rules of Camera Tracking." It's more of a tips and tricks of camera tracking, and though it makes mention of some commercial software, the overall guidance is sound.

And for those of you saying, "Sure I can do camera tracking, but I don't have a green screen, how will I be able to do any chromakeying." Well feast your eyes on a very affordable option.



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  1. 1 durden Edit Link Mar 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    Please… tell more about the Blender tracking script .))) I'm so lazy… just din't wanna read a lot of manuals and all the stuff around that .)))

    Thanks .)

  2. 2 Hoxolotl Edit Link Mar 30th, 2006 at 2:26 pm

    Also worth noting is that a silver christmas ball is the perfect tool for setting the value of lights and building an envmap.
    Just my 2Cents. :)

  3. 3 Terence Edit Link Mar 30th, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    I haven't had time to read the article, but fyi, there is free (but not open source) camera matchmover software called voodoo available at

    http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html#usage

    It has the ability to export to Blender. I've fiddled with it a little and was pretty impressed.

  4. 4 Fab Edit Link Mar 31st, 2006 at 11:45 am

    I've done a little quick test with voodoo and blender (no greenscreen, but 3d on video)

    http://kirgroup.com/index.php?KIRGraphics:Camera_Tracking (in italian…)

    It is very funny! :)

  5. 5 HHec Edit Link Apr 1st, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    It's easy to use, here is a quick sample:

    http://ftp.surteratec.com/sal0001_0020.avi

  6. 6 Darran Edmundson Edit Link Apr 1st, 2006 at 9:22 pm

    A decent alternative to an actual green/blue screen is to use retroreflective material and surround your camera with a ring of LEDs. I've done some experiments with this and it works quite well, the advantage being that you don't need to worry so much about lighting issues.

  7. 7 NtHppy Edit Link May 20th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    —–>Fab

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