Shooting reference vid

[Squid]

hey guys :)

I'm shooting some personal reference vid this weekend (for an upcoming animation project) of a guy performing various katas and wondered if you had any tips to help ?

basically, the video will serve as rotoscopy footage.


thanks loads

Squid

:)

oooh, just realised this is my first post here...great site guys

[specialk]

make sure your track is flawless........

8 markers should be visible in every frame.

dont do ANY zooms with your camera in your footage, if any, do in post or your 3d program.







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[Hugh]

I got the impression from his post that he won't be tracking - usually for rotoscoped animation, it's done with a locked-off camera.

I'm not sure that he'd want to use tracking - I'm not sure that there are any animation programs that can track joints to points on a video... (actually... I lie.... It's called Motion Capture)

I think the main things that you should make sure you do are a) Keep the camera steady and b) shoot in frame mode (rather than field)