Can any one recommend an alternative to Maya for tracking a body in a live action plate. We started to have a look at Blender, Max costs about the same as Maya. We would like to set up some lower cost tracking seats.
mark spevick
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for a really cheap tracking solution with the best support of them all is syntheyes by http://www.ssontech.com/
You can do object tracking for a body track as long as your body is rigid for a non-rigid body (ie one that deforms) you would need at least two other shot camera positions from different angles....Hope this helps
the next best tracking software for object tracking is in my humble opinion 3dequalizer but this is very expensive...syntheyes is about 3-400 dollars whereas the next cheapest tracking software is in the order of thousands of dollars..
Best Mark
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julik
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I use Syntheyes and swear by it. PFTrack does good geometry tracking but costs 10x as much without that much general leverage, also the solver in Syntheyes is generally 10 times faster and more precise (at least for general-purpose shots that I am running through it). SY also has special facilities for mocap.