A Useful Way to Move Beyond the Point Tracker

Here’s a short but extremely useful video tutorial, perfect for your next coffee break, on how to use the manual tracking feature in mocha. Mary Poplin, an LA-based CG and depth artist who is also a product specialist at Imagineer Systems, shows you how to manually adjust the surface track key frames in sequences with tricky paths. The scene in question features a pole in the foreground passing over a tracked screen, something a point tracker alone can’t handle smoothly. Poplin uses a combination of mocha’s auto and manual tracking to move through the occlusion and get the job done.
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