Product Description

Master the Art and Science of Matchmoving

Written by a matchmoving expert, this book is much more than a technical primer. It helps you think like a pro so that you can find the right solution for your matchmoves, no matter how tricky. You'll also find coverage of tasks that commonly go hand-in-hand with matchmoving, along with advice on the contributions you can make on the set of a live-action shoot. Whether you're a student or professional, Matchmoving: The Invisible Art of Camera Tracking gives you the knowledge and perspective you need to quickly and successfully solve every matchmove.

Coverage includes:

• Understanding how matchmove programs work
• Perspective matching
• Getting optimal 2D tracking data
• Calibrating/solving cameras
• Using automatic tracking
• Fitting matchmoves into a CG set
• Mastering matchamation techniques
• Modeling from matchmoves
• Troubleshooting bad matchmoves
• Multi-purposing matchmove data

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105599 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-11
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780782144031
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Master the Art and Science of Matchmoving

Written by a matchmoving expert, this book is much more than a technical primer. It helps you think like a pro so that you can find the right solution for your matchmoves, no matter how tricky. You’ll also find coverage of tasks that commonly go hand-in-hand with matchmoving, along with advice on the contributions you can make on the set of a live-action shoot. Whether you’re a student or professional, Matchmoving: The Invisible Art of Camera Tracking gives you the knowledge and perspective you need to quickly and successfully solve every matchmove.

Coverage includes:

Understanding how matchmove programs work

Perspective matching

Getting optimal 2D tracking data

Calibrating/solving cameras

Using automatic tracking

Fitting matchmoves into a CG set

Mastering matchamation techniques

Modeling from matchmoves

Troubleshooting bad matchmoves

Multi-purposing matchmove data

Featured on the CD On the enclosed CD, you'll find tutorials, a collection of support files to help with various matchmove tasks (sample camera reports, set reports, distortion grid, and more), plus demo versions of matchmoving programs.

About the Author
Tim Dobbert is matchmove supervisor for The Orphanage in San Francisco and has worked on such movies as Hellboy, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Spy Kids 3D, and Sin City. As the owner of a scientific visualization company, Tim has created animations for NASA and various legal service bureaus. He also teaches university classes in matchmoving and image-based content creation and has lectured all over the world on this subject.

Customer Reviews

Tim Dobbert is a true master
This is an amazing book. I am a VFX professional and this book has shed a whole new light on the "mystical" art of matchmoving. The veil has finally been lifted!

This book is a must have for both begginers and advanced effects artists. If your new to the visual effects world, then this book will help you understand the very seldom talked about skill of matchmoving. If your a seasoned pro, and rely on a matchmoving department to create your matchmoves, then this book will help you understand what goes into this very time consuming and sometimes very difficult skill.

I have been using matchmoving software for a while, but never really understood what it takes to acheive the best results. This book has helped me re-asses my thought process when it comes to building my shots.

This book is well writen and layed out perfectly. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down.

An Industry Staple
This book is cheap wisdom that might save you its weight in gold on your next complex track. If you're a seasoned artist or even beginner, you may be surprised by the considerations required to produce perfect results. Automatic systems are incredible tools, but you can't always rely on them without a solid understanding of camera and setup. This all-encompassing, step-by-step coverage of matchmoving is a mandatory read for any interested CG artist, producer and / or supervisor.

Its Amazing
Every page of this book is worth. Whether you are a student or a professional if you are jumping in to the field of matchmoving this book will fulfill your dreams more than you had expected to learn through a book. I am a vfx professional but a starter to this field and was struggling to understand the subject because u wont find many teachers on this subject like other fields of VFX.I was also very uncertain about the material before buying the book because it was the single book available on the subject, but voila it was more than i could have expected. Tim Dobbert is a wonderful teacher, he will make you understand matchmoving like anything, from very basic to quite an advanced level of problem solving techniques, figuring out the problems when matchmove isnt working and the ways to make it work. Twelve chapters are arranged in a class room type lecture, packed with tutorials and the techniques which you can apply literary to any matchmoving software.

Don't think just buy it..........