How to Use Mocha for Tracking and Clean up After Effects - Tips from a Professional VFX Artist

Got 7 minutes? Want a peek behind the curtains at School of Motion? Join Joey for a tour of our campus, learn what makes our classes different, and get a sneak preview of the curriculum in our one-of-a-kind courses.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to take a School of Motion class? Well grab your backpack and join us on a whirlwind tour of our (virtual) campus, and the classes that have built a community of over twelve thousand alumni from all around the world.

We have courses for beginners and seasoned professionals, and our curriculum will give you the software skills, core principles, and real-world experience to succeed in the world of Motion Design. Whether you’re learning 2D or 3D animation, design, or even advanced skills, we’ve got you covered. Some courses are only available for limited times, so be sure to check our website for more information.

School of Motion courses are much more than just a collection of videos. They’re experiences, putting you through bootcamp with a group of likeminded artists from all over the world, and with the support of industry pros who will help you and critique everything you turn in during class.

Once you take a course with School of Motion, you're part of a growing, global community of motion designers, graphic artists, and visual effects masters. Build a network of peers and mentors to take with you wherever you go.

We hope to see you in class!

~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ -

🎓INTERACTIVE ONLINE CLASSES 🎓
Photoshop & Illustrator Unleashed | https://som.bz/3h1HkeB
After Effects Kickstart | https://som.bz/aek
Design Bootcamp | https://som.bz/db
Animation Bootcamp | https://som.bz/ab
Cinema 4D Basecamp | https://som.bz/c4dbc
Cinema 4D Ascent | https://som.bz/c4dascent
Advanced Motion Methods | https://som.bz/amm
Illustration for Motion | https://som.bz/ifm
All Courses | http://som.bz/2wKsBDu

🧭FREE 10-DAY INTRO COURSE 🧭
The Path to MoGraph | https://som.bz/2VNHb7D

🚴‍♀️FOLLOW US FOR MORE LEARNZ 🚴🏾‍♂️
Website | https://som.bz/2VMjr3N
Podcast | https://som.bz/3czNeCP
Facebook | https://som.bz/3cF3SBh
Twitter | https://som.bz/2PQfSWF
Instagram | https://som.bz/2POOJU7

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Auto-Generated Transcript Below 👇

Mark Christiansen (00:00): Well, hello there I'm Mark Christiansen, visual effects, artist and motion designer. In this short video, I'm going to show you a mocha tracking tip that will basically give you a new superpower Motion tracking is one of the most common tasks. And after effects, artists will tackle. I'm going to show you a time-saving trick that will blow your mind. Now, if you really want to hone your compositing chops, check out the effects for motion, the compositing and visual effects class that's built for motion designers. You can also download the project files and using this video to follow along or practice with after you're done, watching details are in the description.

Mark Christiansen (00:44): All right, so here's a fun challenge. We're going to remove the word. Stop from the stop sign. Most likely illegal. We're going to replace it with the school of motion logo. Now on the surface, this may seem like a fairly straightforward tracking exercise, but if you approach it the wrong way, you'll be fighting the software the entire time. The first thing we're going to need to do is track the sign. We're going to do that using mocha III, which comes for free with after effects. So that applied the mocha effect layer. Now I'm going to click this button, but before I do that, I need to be in full resolution. Now mocha has opened and we're ready to track, even though this is sort of the light version of mocha, it is very powerful. And there are a lot of features. If you really want to go deep with this tool, checkout VFX for motion link in the description.

Mark Christiansen (01:34): MOCA is a planar tracker, which means that it can actually look at a very large area of your image and figure out how that area is moving. It can even pick up things like perspective change, which is present at the beginning of the shot right here. So to start, I'm going to come up here and just grab the X spline tool. I'm going to zoom into the image a little bit, and then I'm going to draw a shape around the word stop. All I'm trying to do is pick an area that has some good details that the planar tracker can keep track of it. Now, because this tracking area is moving rotating, scaling, and shifting perspective. We do need to have all of these boxes check down here. Now I can track forward. You can see that MOCA is doing a very good job of tracking this blue area.

For the full transcript visit: https://bit.ly/2YuEADx