Tutorial: Tracking & Compositing VFX for Film & TV
The Gnomon Workshop has released Tracking & Compositing VFX for Film & TV, a guide to essential visual effects workflows, recorded by freelance Compositor Zachary Goodson.
The workshop provides over three hours of video training in Nuke and SynthEyes.
Master professinal tracking and compositing workflows for VFX
In the workshop, Goodson explores core workflows for creating visual effects for film and TV.
The first chapters of the workshop cover tracking, stabilizing and rotoscoping a 2D eye glow, using a workflow actually used to create glowing eye effects in production.
The final chapters cover a painted-out sign replacement – another common task in VFX work, in order to remove logos for copyright issues, or even to insert logos for advertisers.
Goodson explores how to handle a 3D camera track in SynthEyes, including how to 2D-track points for a solid solve, and how to place planes in the 3D scene for compositing in Nuke.
After exporting to Nuke, Goodson uses the 3D camera to stabilize and clean-plate the shot, making multiple sign replacements using only one camera track and one 3D scanline patch.
Viewers of the workshop can download a full set of project files, including the Nuke and SynthEyes projects, plate footage, and PNG files for the logos.
About the artist
Zachary Goodson has over 15 years of experience in VFX, primarily as a Tracking Supervisor and Compositor at studios including Fuse FX, but also as a 3D Generalist and Storyboard Artist.
Projects he has worked on include Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, and Game of Thrones.
Price and availability
Tracking & Compositing VFX for Film & TV is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials.
Subscriptions cost $57/month or $499/year. Free trials are available.
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