The Art and Technique of Matchmoving

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Table of Contents
6. Acknowledgement
7. Foreword
8. Introduction What Is Matchmove, Anyway?
   1. “So, Wait a Minute . . . . What Do You Do, Exactly?”
9. Chapter 1 Types of Matchmoves and Their Uses
   1. What Does a Typical Matchmove Task Look Like in the First Place?
   2. Planning
   3. Gathering Data
   4. Building Assets
   5. Attacking the Shot
   6. What the Computer Thinks About
   7. What Kinds of Matchmove Tasks Are There?
   8. What Kind of Matchmover Are You?
10. Chapter 2 How Movies Get Made: What You Need to Know About It, and Why
    1. Parts of the Film Camera and How They Work
    2. Information Gathering On Set
    3. Communication
    4. Back at the Office: Information Integration
    5. First Steps: Setting Up Your Scene
11. Chapter 3 Use What You Know: Common Sense and the Mystery Plate
    1. You Know More Than You Think You Do
    2. Where to Start?
    3. The Web Is Your Friend
    4. Google Maps
    5. Google Earth
    6. Building the Set
    7. Creating the Camera
    8. Lining Up the Shot
12. Chapter 4 So. . .You Have a Video Plate
    1. It’s a Brave New Digital World
    2. What Makes Video Plates So Different?
    3. What to Do?
    4. And Now, the Results
13. Chapter 5 Camera Moves Considered
    1. Lockoff Shots
    2. Pan and Tilt Shots
    3. Dolly (Truck) and Tracking Shots
    4. Crane Shots
    5. Steadicam and Handheld Shots
    6. Focus Pulls and Zooms
14. Chapter 6 Real-Life Shot: Lockoff Camera
    1. Determine What Needs to Be Done
    2. Review Your Information
    3. Set Up Your Shot
    4. Does It Make Sense?
15. Chapter 7 Real-Life Shot: Focus Pull
    1. Determine What Needs to Be Done
    2. Review Your Information
    3. Color-Correct Your Plates
    4. Set Up the Scene
    5. 2D Track
    6. Survey Constraints
    7. 3D Solve
    8. Does It Make Sense?
    9. Evaluation
16. Chapter 8 Real-Life Shot: Camera Tilt
    1. Determine What Needs to Be Done
    2. Review Your Information
    3. Set Up Your Shot
    4. 2D Track
    5. Survey Constraints
    6. 3D Solve
    7. Handoff
    8. Adding Guestimate Geometry
    9. Evaluation
17. Chapter 9 Real-Life Shot: Handheld Camera
    1. Determine What Needs to Be Done
    2. Review the Information
    3. Set Up the Shot
    4. 2D Tracking
    5. 3D Solve
    6. Refining the Solution Channels
    7. One-Point Solve
18. Chapter 10 Character Rotomation Considered
    1. First Off: What’s Roto for?
    2. How Do You Start?
    3. Great, I Got a Rig. And I’m Scared
    4. Rotomation First Pass: Animating Large to Small
    5. Rotamating Dos and Donts
    6. Which Channels to Key and When to Key Them
    7. Finding the Next Set of Keyframes
    8. Set, Delete, Set
19. Chapter 11 Know Your Character Rig
    1. Embrace Your Inner Rotomator
    2. Getting to Know You
    3. Let’s Meet Our Rig
    4. Control: Master (World)
    5. Control: Body
    6. Control: COG (Center of Gravity)
    7. Control: Hips
    8. Control: Spine
    9. Control: Neck
    10. Control: Head
    11. Control: Shoulders
    12. Control: Arms
    13. Control: Elbow
    14. Control: Legs
    15. Control: Leg, Pivot, and Roll
    16. Control: Knees
    17. Control: Fingers
    18. You’re Almost Ready to Start
    19. Next Up
20. Chapter 12 Real-Life Shot: Character and Object Rotomation
    1. Determine What Needs to Be Done
    2. Part 1: Character Rotomation
    3. Breaking Down the Clip
    4. Hip Close Up
    5. First-Pass Rotomation: Walking
    6. First-Pass Rotomation: Sitting
    7. Second-Pass Rotomation
    8. Shot Part 2: Cup Rotomation
    9. Constraining the Prop Cup
    10. Animating Constraints On and Off
    11. Animating the Cup Trajectory
    12. Keeping Track of Cylindrical Spinning
    13. First Pass Over the Pool
    14. Finishing Up
21. Index