Week 4
(note: this is a LDR image for the sake of the blog )
This week we started a new project involving tracking and material recreation. I started off with filming some plates for this project. I recently got a Spyder color checker so I was exited to put it to use in matching the Canon R5 footage colors with the colors of my Insta360 camera HDRI.
I then took my footage into nuke to track, but was having some problems. 1 the footage had little detail on the concrete surface, and 2 the footage had a bit of lens distortion which was causing problems with the track. I first removed the lens distortion by filming a separate clip with the same camera settings against a grid and used the lens distort node in nuke to calculate the straight image, which I then wrote out as a image sequence to use later. I then emphasized detail on the concrete by blurring the footage by a few pixels then merging it over the original footage with a minus operation. With those two things out of the way, I was able to get a good track to write out to Maya.
result of sharpening, lots of points to track now
