In cinematography, matchmoving is a visual-effects technique that allows the integration of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to photographed objects throughout the shot. It is therefor the matchmover's primary responsibility to accurately determine what the camera was doing when it filmed the footage, so that an identical camera move can be reproduced in a 3D animation or compositing software application. However the data collected for the purpose of matchmoving can be used in several ways to assist virtually every department in a visual effects facility, making matchmoving more of a technical pipeline data function as opposed to a single link in the creative chain.
The unique services offered by Monster Matchmoves Inc. extend far beyond conventional camera tracking, and assist the visual effects supervisor, TD, modellers, animators, rotoscopers, compositors and matte painters by employing a proprietary set of process which greatly expands the scope and accuracy of the data generated, and how it can be used.
Our services include:
- On-set visual effects supervision
- Panoramic, HDRI and reference frame photography
- 3D camera matchmoving and tracking
- Stereoscopic 3D camera tracking
- Object motion tracking
- Scene layout (surface planes, reference geometry, objects of interest)
- Rotomation
- Image-based modelling
- Image stabilization
- Lens distortion correction
- Geometry distortion
- Pre-comp scene generation
- Media transcoding
- Pipeline consultation
The data provided by our services includes:
- 3D animation and compositing scene files in the format of the requested software application
- 2D feature tracks
- 3D motion cameras with aperture information
- 3D motion objects
- Point cloud projections
- Per-frame depth maps
- Per-frame depth meshes
- Mesh geometry derived from point clouds with textures
- Modelling primitives with textures
- Optical flow motion vector calculations
- Review movies
- Anaglyph review movies