I finally booked my one to one with Dom!
It took a while to decide, as at first I thought about tracking the body of a man on a bike, but we did that right before the session so I wanted to do something different like a spaceship landing somewhere or some buildings emerging from the floor.
I went on pexels.com to search for footage and found a really cool one of a drone shot in the desert, a very open space with a ton of possibilities. With this footage I went looking for 3D models of buildings and spaceships, and found an awesome one.
I agreed with Dom to start tracking the shot before our session just to pratice a bit alone and to be quicker for the sessions, but I couldn’t export the footage with a decent quality to 3DEqualizer, every time I tried it the footage was full of noise!
So we began tracking on the session, starting for the floor on the left side, then right side “walls”, then floor and finally backgrounds, always tracking in parallel and perpendicular lines to be easier to have a perception of the points location. After this we select the floor points and create a plane on 3DE. We were able to track all the points in 1h40 and import it to maya.
We were able to track every point in 1h30 and finished the project to import to MAYA. That really is the part I have more difficulties as what happens in my screen is always different. So, we imported the footage, and the goal was to make a polygon plane on the floor so we could import the futuristic car rig I found and animate it but I was not being able to do the same as Dom as in maya I was moving the footage instead of the plane I had created to place on the floor. It is a task for next session, next week!