Motion Graphics & Compositing / Project 2: Compositing Exercises

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28.05.2026 - 04.07.2026 (Week 6 -11)
Janaan Ahmed (0353333)
Motion Graphics & Compositing/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Project 2: Motion Graphic Exercises

Lectures

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Instructions

Exercise 1: Roto & Camera Tracking


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Exercise 2: VFX Compositing

Exercise 5: AE and Blender

Camera Tracking - choosing position for object to be placed

This exercise involves camera movement unlike exercise 4 which utilised tracking on a moving object with a fixed camera.
  • Export video into AE and increase contrast - this helps to create more tracking points.
  • Use curves or brightness/contrast
  • Motion tracking tab --> Track Camera
  • But sometimes track camera FX bypasses the contrast FX, and so pointless therefore after applying contrast precompose the video.
See amount of tracking points below precompose and w/o precompose




  • Under advanced settings dropdown, click detailed analysis
  • Select tracking points, right click --> Solid & Camera.
  • Before exporting this file to Blender, since AE and Blender are incompatible we need to download the JSON script
  • After installing, restart AE. Then select all 3 files on composition and then export as JSON file. (in preferences enable scripts).
  • This JSON file is simply the tracking data.

Blender

  • Delete all items first
  • Now we also download a plugin into Blender
  • Do NOT unzip the script file.
  • Go to preferences > add ons > install disk --- click the zip ae script
  • Then we will be able to import the JSON file
  • Import the file then delete the vertical plane
  • Click [a] to select all objects, to view keyframes. Set starting frame 0 to 1 (move all keyframes).
  • Select camera, on background images, 




  • Import robot file, join objects






Feedback

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Reflection

Experience

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