Matchmove training books

Hi,
Has anyone ever read either of the below Matchmoving books?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Matchmoving-…9201844&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Techniqu…9201844&sr=8-2

Over the last 12-18 months I’ve done a fair amount of experimenting and some basic matchmoving in PFTrack 4 / 2011, Boujou and Nuke, but am entirely self taught (and often experience shots I simply can’t track) and would like to take it from the start and learn the ins and outs 🙂

Any advice would be great!

Thanks in advance.
Chaz

How were these 3 shots done?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JByDbPn6A1o

00:22 – 00:27 – Am I right to think that this was just 2 motion control shots, some roto and some extra camera movement added back in?

00:39 – 00:40 – Am I right to think that this was just 2 shots with the same lighting and the one with Eminem was just animated/faded out like that?

01:17 – 01:25 – I can see where the cut happens, but HOW did they do that? Did they just do takes with the exact same staging and cut them?

BIG THANKS!

how does this work? about being hired

Their are a few positions open here for game developers, I have applied for the positions,sent my demo reel, had a professional company do my resume and cover letter, have all the requirements that they ask for.
pretty much follow their rules as far as what they are asking for to fill these open positions.

A couple of weeks go by the positions are re-posted with the same information as before. I know that different companies are going to do different things as far as hiring procedures go but how does this work?

Now, I have heard that for every position posted there are about a hundred people applying for them so they have to filter out between the qualified, the ones with degrees, and ones without any demo reels to show. (which I was told you won’t even get a conversation started without one)

another thing I was told was that if they get so jam packed with resumes that they eventually just wipe them all out and start a new but all of which post “no relocation package will be assissted “which helps me living in the city a lot.

I am constantly posting my reel here and other places to get feedback and comments. (not to toot my own horn or anything)
compared to a lot of other post on google,youtube and vimeo I think it looks really good.

somebody that reads this must work for a company or has worked for a company and has to know how the hiring and the whole process goes.

New Kickstarter Project with VFX looks awesome.

Hey guys, Check this SCI FI kickstarter project… looks amazing. Help spread the word. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/…iades?ref=live

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I have quite a few feed backs from this demo and I was told that the school at the last half of the demo has some bad texturing, I could easily go back and fix it but I have two other projects that I am going to add to this so I thought It would be better to just cut a section or two out completely, but I don’t want to edit out the entire school just yet.

I need some outside help and opinions
the scenes are labeled at the bottom right corner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkknMm5gZI

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I am in search of a 3D Modeler, who can create 3D models of rings! An example of a ring to be modeled can be found here : http://www.jamesallen.com/_images/sp…ement-ring.jpg

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