A fix for some of the tracking problems

So, some of you are having tracking problems when importing the background as an mov. I talked with Brian Nye and worked on it a bit tonight and it looks like there is a frame offset issue with the mov files when compared to importing in a JPG sequence. Here is a good tutorial showing how to load in the jpg sequence. I verified his method and it works much better than using the .mov files.

Assignment 4 Lesson 2

Here is the 2nd lesson for assignment 4.




Also, grades are updated on Canvas. If you have a zero or any of your assignments are low, please send me an email and we can work on it. It is likely that you didn't turn in a portion of an assignment.

Assignment 4 Lesson 1

Here is the video tutorial for the first part of Assignment 4


Assignment4Lesson1 from Eric Allen on Vimeo.

Have your hd 720 footage ready for tonight, or you can use one of mine.

ATTENTION!!! If you have a problem with the start frame in after effects starting at anything other than 0, go into Composition/Composition Settings and set the start timecode to 00:00:00:00. The export will then be correct going into c4d.

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Sample Video for Assignment 4

Here is the sample video I am using for assignment 4.

video

or you can use one of these...

falls
tramhouse
bridge

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Updated Syllabus

Syllabus is updated with assignment 4 info. We will talk more on Monday about the particulars about the assignment.

Hints for Assignment 3

Some of the issues that were common tonight.

For applying PolyFX to illustrator files...

Bring in your illustrator 8 file. 

Select all the curves and go to mesh-conversion-connect objects and delete. 

Find the curve item in your list and put it under an extrude nurbs.

Add polyfx. 

Change its transform scale "s" to all 0s.  

Change falloff to linear and orient it (usually in -x).

Make your extrude nurbs object editable

Put polyfx in as a child of the extrude nurbs.

Animate.

for fixing up projected textures...

Click once on the material icon that is your projected texture in the top right.

Uncheck "tile".

manipulate the texture by clicking on the checkerboard icon on the left.

You can also add another material on the surface to be "under the logo".

To smooth a faceted object (like an stl)...

Right click on the object-C4D tags-Phong tag

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Email me...

Once your style frames/story boards are uploaded, send me an email. Remember they are due tonight at midnight.