Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production

2D Tracking (part 2)

A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer

97% positive reviews (103)

3,049 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: 2D Tracking (part 2)

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you the most basic object tracking technique, 2D Tracking. I will also teach you the basics of Planar Tracking.”

In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: 2D Tracking (part 2), which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production. Learn fundamentals and basic techniques to create a VFX shot with Nuke.

Partial transcription of the video

“The tracking process of this shot is over and notice that here, each of these trackers, It has three boxes. One that says T, R and S. T means translation or "translate". R means "rotation" or rotation. And the S means "scale" or scale. And notice that Tracker 1, which was the first one I tracked, Only the translation box is clicked. That means that the "tracking", the "track" of this dot, the only thing that is returning it is information of X and Y, of movement translation. In X and Y, no rotation and no scale. So what I'm going to do now is activate this same box in the rest of the tracke...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (103)
3049 students
4 units
22 lessons (5h 36m)
8 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Nuke
Areas
3D, Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX

Juan Olivares

A course by Juan Olivares

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Digital VFX Composer

Juan Olivares is a specialist in digital composition and visual effects. His beginnings in the audiovisual world were in Buenos Aires (Argentina) working for television commercials, where he later made his big leap into the world of visual effects with the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes.

He worked on innumerable Argentine productions before moving to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked in houses specializing in visual effects such as The Embassy, Zoic, and Digital Domain, with which he was able to participate in Hollywood productions such as Deadpool, Arrow, and Furious 7. Then, he crossed the ocean, this time to London, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Framestore house for the film Guardians of the Galaxy.

He is currently in Chile, his native country, where he founded a visual-effects boutique specializing in characters and creatures, called Grumpy VFX, where he is a composer and visual-effects supervisor.