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“Matt Linder is one of the smartest digital artists I've worked with, excelling in many facets of production. Additionally, he is the consummate teacher, clear, concise and enthusiastic, never speaking above his audience.”

- Mark Freund
Visual Effects Supervisor
Pacific Title & Art Studio

$69.00
Instructor: Matt LINDER	Formats: Mac or PC only DVD-ROM, System Requirements Digital Download, More Information

In this lecture, visual effects artist Matt Linder discusses advanced techniques for tracking and stabilizing 2D plates using Shake. Using real-world examples, Matt shows his techniques for capturing a move with one-point, two-point or four-point tracking. Each tracking and transform node is thoroughly discussed, including where to place your tracking points to capture accurate track data, how to deal with obscured tracking objects, smoothing and averaging tracks, adding motion blur to 3D renders, and smoothing out camera shake without losing the original camera move. This DVD also contains challenging real-world production tracking examples.

Over 3 hours of lecture.

Product Code: MLI04

01: Introduction to Tracking, 1-Point Tracking
02: Introduction to Transform Nodes
03: 2-Point Tracking, and More Details of Tracking Nodes
04: Adding Motion Blur Without Transforming
05: Smoothing Action Moves
06: 2 and 4-Point Tracking
07: 4-Point Tracking with Obscured Points

Click here to view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 1024x768 with higher quality compression . View the stills to the right to see the actual resolution.

Matt Linder has worked on over fifty feature films, including Elektra, Garfield, X-Men 2, Daredevil, Ghost Ship and Scooby Doo. Matt got his start at Kodak’s Motion Picture Film division in Hollywood, where he learned all aspects of motion picture film and cinematography. Later he joined Kodak’s Cineon team where he contributed to the birth of digital compositing. From there Matt went to Pacific Title and Art Studio as Lead Compositor and Effects Artist for four years. Currently Matt works as a Lead Lighting Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues, where he is sequence lighting the film The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. When Matt is not pushing pixels, he's pushing sound waves around LA with his music projects "The Mood of Space" and "Nerve Picnic".

Visual Effects Compositing Fundamentals
Shake 101: Interface and Workflow
Shake: Expressions, Scripting and Macros
Shake: Color Correction and Layers
Shake: Effective Keying Techniques