Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 07 Join, Refine, Offset & Average Trackers
10. January 2022

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 07 Join, Refine, Offset & Average Trackers

10. January 2022 By admin

In this tutorial series, we will talk about Blender as a solution for 3D Camera and Object Tracking. Step by Step you will learn how to use Blender for preparing your footage in the Video Sequence Editor (VSE) and getting used to the Movie Clip Editor. Then we will cover the important fundamentals of 2D-Tracking in Blender and also some use-cases for directly using these data. Then we build upon these 2D-Tracks and start solving a 3D-Camera and talk about good and bad tracks, nodal shots, tricks like offset-tracking, joining of tracks, and analyzing solve problems. In the final tutorials, we will finish with Object-tracking for props replacement. After this tutorial series, you have a solid understanding of Blender’s Camera and Object Tracking and how to use the solved data inside of Blender or in other applications like Maya, Cinema, or Houdini.

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 07 Join, Refine, Offset & Average Trackers

These topics are covered in this tutorial:

Loading the Footage & Project Settings

Analyzing the footage

Tracker Settings

Configure the search area

Track step-by-step

Adjusting the pattern

Tracking Pie menu

Cleaning tracks

Disabling Trackers

Working with two trackers

Joining trackers

Manually enabling and disabling trackers

Refining Trackers

Offset Tracking

Adjusting Offsets while tracking

Resetting an Offset Track

Generating an Average Tracker

If you want to use the same footage, here is my Gumroad link:

https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/GEdjT

Be aware, that these files are included in my Patreon 😉

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

This tutorial series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. In these tutorials, I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected. I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions. 

As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas. He focuses on Houdini FX, Blender, and NUKE for his daily work and training.

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials you could join his Patreons:

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixeltrain
Blog: http://www.helgemaus.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/pixeltrain

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 06 Plane-Tracking, Corner Pin & Compositing
6. January 2022

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 06 Plane-Tracking, Corner Pin & Compositing

6. January 2022 By adminLeave a comment

My next free “Blender 3.0 for Production” tutorial is out.
Let’s talk about plane-tracking, corner pining and the integration with the built-in compositor.

Have fun!

4. January 2022

New Blender 3.0 Feature Reel

4. January 2022 By adminLeave a comment

Have you seen the new Blender 3.0 Feature reel 2021?

Blender 3.0 Feature Reel 2021

Every release motivates me to dive deeper into content creation with this incredible tool.

Maybe you want to make 2022 your starting point for your Blender journey? Here are some trainings classes (German AND English) I will host together with Visualisierungs-Akademie in the following weeks:

Blender 3D entry-level live workshop (English) – 24.+25. January
https://www.eventbrite.ch/e/blender-3d-entrylevel-live-workshop-tickets-194481879537 

Blender Einführungskurs (German) – 20.+21. January
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-einfuehrungskurs/ 

Blender Renderingkurs (German) – 24.+25. February
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-vertiefung/ 

Blender Animationskurs (German) – 07.+08. March
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-animation/ 

If you have questions about these trainings or ideas, please write me a direct message.

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 05 Advanced Tracking Settings
29. December 2021

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 05 Advanced Tracking Settings

29. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

Let’s look into the advanced settings of the Blender 2D-Tracking system.
My next tutorial of my “Blender for Production” tutorial series is online.

Have fun with it!

YouTube:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

28. December 2021

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 04b Patreon Q&A – Matchmoving NUKE Rotos in Blender

28. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

This tutorial is an answer to a pixeltrain Patreon question: It shows the roundtrip of a stabilized shot from Blender’s Tracking system to NUKE (or any other Compositing package like Fusion or AfterEffects) and how to use Rotoscoping data from there back in Blender. If you want to join my Patreon community, you can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

These topics are covered in this tutorial:

  • Writing out a stabilized shot as EXRs from Blender
  • NUKE project settings
  • Keying out the screen
  • Shuffle the Alpha into RGBA
  • Writing out data from NUKE
  • Importing the NUKE EXRs into the Blender compositor
  • Generating a Solid Color Plane
  • Inject an alpha to a plate
  • Comp the plates together
  • Understand stabilize and matchmove

If you want to use the same footage, here is my Gumroad link:

https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/GEdjT

Be aware, that these files are included in my Patreon 😉

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

This tutorial series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. In these tutorials, I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected. I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions. 

As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas. He focuses on Houdini FX, Blender, and NUKE for his daily work and training.

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials you could join his Patreons:

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Find more information on http://www.pixeltrain.net
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixeltrain
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/pixeltrain

Blender 3.0 for Production - 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow - 04 2D-Stabilization & Compositing Workflow
23. December 2021

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 04 2D-Stabilization & Compositing Workflow

23. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

Here’s the next lesson of our Blender 2D- & 3D-Tracking tutorials.


After laying the fundamentals in the last tutorials we will now take a look into the first use of our tracking knowledge for making stabilizations. We use two examples for that and we also use the Blender Compositor. I hope you like it.

👉 YouTube:

More tutorials of this series will follow shortly. Have a great holiday season 🌲 🙂

If you want to use the same footage, here is my Gumroad link:

https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/GEdjT

Be aware, that these files are included in my Patreon 😉

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

16. December 2021

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 03 Fundamentals of 2D-Tracking in Blender

16. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

Last week we started the new “Blender 3.0 for Production” series about 2D- & 3D Tracking in Blender. After preparing the footage and an overview of the Movie clip editor in the first two episodes we now dive into the fundamentals of 2D tracking.

Many more episodes will follow 😉

Have fun! 😊

👉 YouTube:

If you want to support these kinds of videos, you can become a pixeltrain Patreon 😉

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

15. December 2021

Why Blender?

15. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

What do I love about Blender? That working in the application is so integrated, fast & flexible, for example for shading while changing some uvs on the fly with Cycles still running.

Also the amazing bunch of build-in add-ons for so many useful things, from archviz to generating trees. And, of course, the Add-ons made by talented programmers are so affordable or even free. For example this Car Rig add-on. Needless to say, subscription-free.

Yes, still many areas can be improved, but so much stuff is there already.

If you want to dive deeper into Blender, visit my YouTube channel for many free tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

Blender 3.0 for Production - Tracking
13. December 2021

2D- & 3D-Tracking Workflows in Blender

13. December 2021 By adminLeave a comment

Here we go – today I’ve started the next free tutorial series “Blender 3.0 for Production”. The topic this time is “2D- & 3D-Tracking Workflows in Blender”. 

So, if you ever wanted to learn Camera-Tracking, Matchmoving, and Object-Tracking inside of Blender and also get a deep dive into techniques and workflows for exchanging these data with the Compositor and also external applications like Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, or NUKE, then this series is for you.

These first two lessons are about preparing your footage for Tracking inside of Blender with the help of the built-in Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Also, we take a brief tour of the MovieClip Editor. The following tutorials will drop in the next week. Have fun!

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 01 Preparing Footage in the VSE
https://youtu.be/GdUa73KxLsw

Blender 3.0 for Production – 2D & 3D Tracking Workflow – 02 Overview of the Movie Clip Editor
https://youtu.be/K99UNNzYur4

Have fun!

Helge

25. November 2021

New upcoming tutorial series

25. November 2021 By admin

Thanks to the new USD export in Blender, the exchange between Blender’s powerful motion tracker and NUKE or Houdini is becoming easier and easier. Blender is becoming more and more team-minded – thanks to the developers.

My upcoming Blender free tutorial series offers a deep dive into camera and object tracking.

More information then on YouTube. Coming soon: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

If you like Helge’s Tutorials, give him some support to go on!

If you want to support Helge Maus for publishing more free tutorials, you can join his Patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

Or if you want to buy me a coffee or pizza, here’s my Tip Jar:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=72PHXB852BW5A

Thanks for your support!

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/pixeltrain

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/