insert cg objects in a photograph

[arvid]

You should pick up a copy of this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Matchmoving-Invisible-Art-Camera-Tracking/dp/0782144039/ref=sr_11_1/202-6829448-9817464?ie=UTF8

He's got some good advice for matching locked off shots as well as how to achieve good 3D-tracking using popular matchmoving tools.

[boomji]

hi,
Tim's book(arvid mentioned) has this as his first exercise And there's buttt loads more to learn from that book.
The basic approach he adopted(depends on the pic ) was to make an assumption of how high off the ground the camera was,Then the lens,Distance of bldg to the cam,how high each level in the bldg was(to approx the height of the bldg) etc.
create a proxy geometry,attach a null to one of the korners and have your free cam link to it.
from there on you work with more gusses and zero in on a solution.


thanks for sharing your knowledge on the MR front silvie :)

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[silvia]

Wow thank you guys, I will definately check out the book, it sounds exactly like what I need.
I just posted my 1st attempt in the WIP thread
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=411665
but I have plenty more exercises to go.

boomji, my pleasure to share that little I know with others.

Thanks again.

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