I got a lecture about using the computer to my advantage so I have been trying to wade further into software I skipped over because I didn't feel like I had the time to learn it. I know the basics of After Effects but I usually prefer to do things manually (much to the sadness of my recurring tendonitis). I have to track a lot of things for this shot so I looked into tracking, and finding that the default tracker in AE was not very sophisticated, Daryl-Lynn suggested I try Mocha, which also comes with AE but is far more intuitive in tracking planes and shapes. Fia's nose is my track point for all her feature and hair so I spent an afternoon dicking around in Mocha and trying to get it work. Once it did, the results were very satisfactory, and if I had spent this afternoon doing the tracking manually, I know it would have taken me three times as long.
Some helpful tutorials I found to help me get started on Mocha:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/03_RG_CornerPin/video-tutorialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaTsJAG6dMQhttp://vimeo.com/3107078James also lent me his handout from Brian Charles' motion graphics class. I am hoping to take that next year.
"These boxes are here to HELP YOU"
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