Camera projection mapping tutorials

#1

Can anyone recommend some good books, DVDs, or online tutorials that cover projection mapping in detail?

thank you for reading.

#2

it all depends on your specific software , what are you using? gnomon has some cool matte painting dvd’s where 3ds max is used by chris stoski , or you can check the latest matte painting dvd where camera projection is used in maya
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/710/

#3

I’am also looking a long time for realistic (!) Digital Matte painting Tutorials with camera projection for VFX (any 3D App, NUKE, Fusion, AfterEffects). The gnomon Matte painting Tutorials and all others i found have always still images and Fantasy Pictures without useful Workflows for Colors, Grain and MotionBlur to look and feel seamless for Real Footage Production shots.

 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUs7hDq2PA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUs7hDq2PA)
 
 So if any one knows this: Matte painting for Production

Thanks :slight_smile:

#4

Its something on my agenda to do. I know of one currently on the Foundry’s page under the Nuke master class section. Its a very subtle projection but they go over motion blur, and depth. Its also nuke centric. I will post when I complete the ones I am working on.

#5

using maya so these should be helpful! Thanks.

#6

yes, I am looking for exactly the same thing. This footage from John Adams is really good, I would love to see some tutorials based on quality work like this. Something that goes through the whole process from keying, camera matching/production, through compositing and color grading.

#7

So i hope that gnomon or other read this thread :wink: and make something realistic. Fantasy Matte painting with camera projection is not so difficult, because you can cheat everywhere…

#8

the techniques to do a mattepainting photoreal or fantasy style depends on the artist
for me that does not has to do with the compositing in NUKE or any other application like AE while u prepare the matte for compositing

the techniques applyed to get Photoreal matte is getting based on experience and work hours
and having a good sense of lighting and others skills gained from the observation of the real life

the Gnomon title: Matte painting for production deals with a cinematic aproach of a intro for a game and there is not green screen or bluescreen involved or planned as since there is no live plate movie to integrate it is just a pairs of matte painting doing using real texture and real photography in photoshop and using 3d geometry to project, but deals with a good understanding of what is needed for this kind of productions.
there is no compositing steps involved here

but I think there are good DVDs that deals with NUKE compositing and their workflow it is just to have the 2 pieces DVDs and with a little effort of us to join them to have the complete workflow

sometimes we need to look in more places and do not wait have everithing together in the table

#9 
     Now we have the explanation why every online school (exception fxphd) makes fantasy matte painting DVDs without real footage :hmm:

     In ervery VFX Forum are question about courses with real footage VFX matte painting include camera mapping, because many independent filmmakers outside the big production studios will learn this. What you always found are MP courses with still photos. The workflow with projection mapping and painting in movie sequence is complete different to still images. I think no one needs a tutorial for keying Greenscreens ;) - but the other techniques. 
     
     No one expected a complete cine movie in one tutorial, but i think it is possible to take one or two real footage shots for this kind of tutorials!
     
     Watch this VFX Brakdown and you see whats different....:
     [http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/australia/vfx-breakdown](http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/australia/vfx-breakdown)
     
     You also can film a simple footage with a normal HD-Camera for this kind of vfx tutorials
     [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SALSn9E1fkc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SALSn9E1fkc).
     
     Gnomon Workshops are of corse good training courses, but [b]always[/b] is outside realistic film making - So back to the topic:  [b]recommend real footage VFX matte painting [/b][b]with projection mapping[/b][b][b]![/b]
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 regards 
 -roland-
#10

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