Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Things to Consider before Filming

Sometimes you are just given a video that you need to track and the level of difficulty to do this directly depends on how the video was shot. If it wasn’t shot with some basic considerations in mind, you’ll probably have a hard time tracking it: it may not contain enough features to track or it may be very blurry or fast moving. Keep in mind that in a movie, for example, there can be a lot of these tricky shots to track, but also keep in mind that there are people with significant experience, using expensive software, and putting in a lot of effort (sometimes even performing manual “magic”) to make the 3D camera fit perfectly with the camera that took the real footage. If you want to create your own videos ...