Introduction to VFX for Cinema
Tracking / Match movie
A course by Carolina Jiménez García , Layout artist at VFX
Joined June 2017
About the video: Tracking / Match movie
Overview
“There are bridge departments that join the 2D branch with the 3D branch within the VFX pipeline. These are the Tracking and MatchMove departments. We will see what their work consists of and why they are so fundamental. ”
In this video lesson Carolina Jiménez García addresses the topic: Tracking / Match movie, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX for Cinema. Discover the workflows and complete range of effects for audiovisual productions.
Partial transcription of the video
“We now turn to talk about the departments of Tracking and Match move. These are two departments that sometimes come together in one and that are dedicated to capturing the movement of things that move during the recording of the set and that go to be fundamental, for many of subsequent departments in the pipeline, for example, the tracking department gets the information of the camera movement of the plate obtained by said camera. By triangulation, is responsible for selecting different points at different distances from the camera, so that we can triangulate and calculate mathematically wi...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX for Cinema
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Areas
3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing

Carolina Jiménez García
A course by Carolina Jiménez García
Carolina Jiménez has more than a decade of experience as a layout artist for VFX. His work has taken him to countries such as Australia, New Zealand or the United Kingdom and he has participated in major international film productions such as World War Z , Star Trek Beyond , the trilogy of The Hobbit , Antman and the Wasp , The Justice League , The Planet of the Apes 2 , Prometheus , Megalodon , The League of Justice or Power Rangers . He currently lives in Vancouver (Canada), where he works as Layout artist in Scanline VFX.
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