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Imagineer mokey, monet, mocha, motor or mocha-AE tutorial contest

Thorsten Meyer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:30:19 +0000

imagineer systems is sponsoring a video screen recording tutorial contest. Participants may submit a video screen recording of any of Imagineer Systems products and the winning participant will receive a full suite of all of Imagineer’s programs!

User must have the rights to use the content of the footage they are using. Video can feature any of the following software applications: mokey, monet, mocha, motor or mocha-AE

Any number of topics can be covered and the more unique the tutorial, the better chances of winning! Some sample ideas for tutorial topics:

rotoscoping organic objects with motor
logo replacement with monet
using clean plates in mokey
tracking null layers in After Effects using mocha-AE

Videos must be send to Imagineer no later than August 31th, 2008.

All rules and guidelines can be found here: video screen recording tutorial contest

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Rotoscoping in Nuke, Combustion and AE

Thorsten Meyer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:02:37 +0000

Aaron Zander compares rotoscoping in 3 different applications (Nuke, Combustion and AE). You can download (( – 232 megs- Duration 47:30)) Aaron Zander’s Nuke, Combustion and AE roto Video Tutorial on Aaron Zanders web site “Z-Effects Blog“

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(new) imagineer systems mocha-AE tutorial released

Thorsten Meyer — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:57:37 +0000

A new imagineer systems mocha / mocha-AE video tutorial covers advanced techniques:

Adjust track module
Obscured track objects
Offscreen tracking
Import workflow to After Effects

imagineer systems mocha is a stand alone 2D tracking tool packed with features that make the effects compositors life easier.

imagineer system mocha-AE is custom designed and priced for the After Effects community

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Introduction to Camera Tracking by Rhythm & Hues (updated)

Thorsten Meyer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:30:06 +0000

Rhythm & Hues did release a small introduction about camera tracking (using Maya live):

The movies are on Rhythm & Hues web site

Introduction to camera tracking (1.2 MB)

Example to show the need for camera tracking (14.6 MB)

Maya live setup (7.3 MB)

Initial alignment of the camera (6.0 MB)

Fine tuning the alignment of the camera (10.8 MB)

Tracking 2d points (6.7 MB)

Tracking 2d points(contd.) (8.1 MB)

Adding Constraints (7.0 MB)

Solving the camera (3.0 MB)

Improving the track further (5.9 MB)

Best would be if you download the Video Tutorial by Right-clicking on the link and choose ‘Save Link As’ or ‘Save Target As’ to save the video file on your local system

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