Hasta La Motion!

Hi friends ,
i heard some news about avatar. Seems like releasing again on theaters.
what is the matter actually ?

well …i made ma first composition and it wasn’t that good (u will also find it in the beginner’s talk section) and one user told me this "You should always do your compositing in a progressive environment. Deinterlace, work, then interlace afterwards as required" …..but i’m lost so how can i achieve what he said using after effects ?? or plz give me a tutorial link about it !!!

thx in advance

first of all thx for all those great members of vfxtalk who used to answer all my cough-stupid-cough questions in the beginner’s section. now here is my first compositing shot HORRAY :thumbsup: !! and i’m actually not just showing it to you so plz don’t just watch it and go 😡 no plz give me ur opinion and criticism and also give me advice on how to make it look better !! and how is my (taxis,cars) roto ? (first time to roto too)
i know it isn’t that good but here is
some information : i knew NOTHING:eek: !!! about 3d,maya,compositing before a month and that’s ma FIRST try so..mmmmmm…………………

plz rate me…. cuz i’d really like to know can i call myself a beginner compositor or i’m even worse ?! am i a very slow learner ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5TL-vpK_g

i didn’t model the dino or texture (add some materials for the mouth and eyes) it but i rigged and animated it and did eveyrhing else in the shot ;D

used maya and after effects

THX in advance

I’m trying to get around with matchmoving and Ive just started off with Autodesk Matchmover.
Referring to the bundled tutorials, it has a chapter on supervised tracking. The tutorial just mentioned that the distance between 2 corners of the room was "20". 20 of what? It left me with some more questions:

I can upload a frame from the sequence if it could help.

1) Did they know the set measurements? (probably yes !!)
2) What units setup matchmover uses? i.e. cm, meters, inches etc.

And some more general questions:
1) Is camera data(like focal length, apertures, distortion grids) given to matchmovers?
2)Do matchmovers always get access to set data? And in its absence, what do they do?

These questions actually made me download a book on the same topic authored by Tim Dobbert.
Just wondering if someone could help out!!

Ok so i have this shot and i’m trying to remove one marker, ONE SINGLE MARKER, and i don’t have a friggin clue on how to do it (doing this all in fusion 6 btw)

http://a.imageshack.us/img541/2848/0002yk1.gif
http://vimeo.com/14575452

I first tried to create a simple mask around the marker, and like overlay that part with a different part of the footage (no offsetting timelines or what not). that so did not work.

so then i tried to animate masks, animating color curves and brightness, nope that didn’t work.

http://vimeo.com/14575782

and finally what i tried was like get a copy of the same footage, offset it and like change the position and orientation so that the light kind of stays the same, and overlay that onto the mask, resulting in the marker being taken out, but no that fails too. since like there’s way too many subtle light changes i can’t really have enough keyfraimes to make it all a smooth transition (though it was the closest result i got)

http://vimeo.com/14575647

I’m sure it’s a really simple shot since it’s just ONE marker, but yeah being real inexperienced i really don’t know what to do now. Can anyone suggest any other method i may not have tried? or, what is the actual proper procedure in painting the marker out?

thanks in advance