Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle – Day 1

Naim Alwan on Feb 4th 2009 with 161 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: After Effects, Various other plugins & software
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 31:08 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial Naim Alwan ventures outside of After Effects for a little bit of 3D Matchmoving to create this stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to some city footage. In day 1 you will learn how to do a track using Boujou (although any matchmoving software will work for this) and then import and apply that information in After Effects successfully.

Naim explains:

In this two part tutorial you will learn the workflow for seamlessly integrating live action footage with motion graphics elements.

The first day we are going to be spending a little time familiarizing ourselves with the camera tracking process using Boujou, and the settings we need to get right in order to export an AE camera track.

We will then use the information contained on the nulls to setup the scene. Once the track is imported in AE and scene setup we will shift our focus to Illustrator where we will cover the layer setup we need in order to import an Illustrator file into AE.

Tutorial

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Discussion 161 Comments

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  1. Quddus ahmed says:
    May 18, 2009 at 2:12 am

    very nice tutrils.
    i ilike my after effect software.
    thank you very……………very…………..much

    Reply
  2. Alex says:
    May 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    isso eh muito massa
    eh o melhor site sobre tutorial do after que eu ja vi

    Reply
  3. sunny singh says:
    May 29, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    ur my inspiration!!! thankk you soooooooooooo much!!

    Reply
  4. okar says:
    June 3, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Good tutorial!!!

    Reply
  5. janna says:
    June 10, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    where did you get the stock photo? i would like to use it too :D

    Reply
  6. harsh says:
    June 15, 2009 at 7:10 am

    good work

    Reply
  7. Nithin Pathrose says:
    June 17, 2009 at 8:54 am

    reaily help to this tutorial
    thanks

    to all of you

    Reply
  8. Tapas Mukherjee says:
    June 24, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Great!!Thanx

    Reply
  9. camille says:
    June 25, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    awesome, thank you ever so much !
    Don’t you project to do one for use the cinema 4D export of boujou ??
    because it would be great with your clear explanations !!
    good continuation !

    Reply
  10. rajh says:
    July 1, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Thanks dude !!! Nice Work !!!

    : )

    Reply
  11. Tobisama says:
    July 3, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    GREAT TUTORIAL, im very interested in learning more of boujou, but there are just a couple of tutorials, THANKS FOR THIS. This was a great help for me.

    Would you make another tutorial for learning other features of boujou? like make the track of a scene with a more complex camera movement, for example a circular or maybe you know about other links with video tuts of boujo.

    One more time a lot of THANKS!!

    Reply
  12. mughal sahib says:
    July 11, 2009 at 9:25 am

    hello Naim Alwan, i don’t understood what is name of that programme which you have use on 1:35 min
    please tell me bcoz my english is not very good and well

    Reply
  13. mike says:
    July 13, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    cool

    Reply
  14. twain says:
    July 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    great tut, but when i import boujou data to the aae, i have only one comp, square comp miss me, when i find it or i have use first comp which Naim delete?

    Reply
  15. moer says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Your right he is a GEEK, but when he gets in the Octagon thats the last thing you want to call him! Did I forget to mention he was a cage fighter! Go on Naim with your killer tutorials. Whats next?

    Reply
  16. ewin says:
    August 24, 2009 at 6:07 am

    Cool!

    Reply
  17. ashraf says:
    September 6, 2009 at 7:51 am

    WOW
    Amazing !!!!!

    Reply
  18. Franz Flores says:
    September 8, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    Aunque mi inglés no es muy técnico, ni soy experto en AE, este tutorial es realmente fantástico, voy a conseguir los plugis, merece la pena invertir tiempo y dinero en este fantástico proyecto. Mil gracias por tu aporte. por favor piensa en traducir tu trabajo en español, también nis gusta trabajar en este tipo de efectos.
    Franz

    Reply
  19. jujubi says:
    September 10, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    nice tuts and great job

    Reply
  20. Chris says:
    September 14, 2009 at 11:57 am

    very nice tuts. very helpful. thanks!

    Reply
  21. juver says:
    September 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    helo… muchachos… como estan… tooos de mi parte un gran saludo a todo quienes visiten este link… weno estoy en el mundo de la animacion pero aun me faltan aprender muchos efectos y esto de AE es nuevo pero wenazo gracias por los aporte ……

    se lo agradeceria un monton si me ayudan con algunos tutoriales…. weno mi correo es jobs_and_jobs@hotmail.com….. weno desde ya muchas gracias……..

    Reply
  22. anistock says:
    September 21, 2009 at 7:35 am

    great tutorial, like it

    Reply
  23. horacio says:
    September 29, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    exelente material

    Reply
  24. jang says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:05 am

    thank you!! that’s great work

    Reply
  25. jen says:
    January 11, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    Hey, the tutorial isn’t playing more than the first little bit… whats up with that? Technical difficulties?

    Reply
  26. pedro says:
    February 4, 2010 at 8:31 am

    i can´t see or download the complete tutorial.somebody know why?

    Thanks

    Reply
  27. pedro says:
    February 4, 2010 at 8:33 am

    I can´t see or download the complete tutorial.Somebody know why?
    Thanks

    Reply
  28. pelle says:
    March 16, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    where is the rest of the tutorial!? it stops after 30 minuts or so… please help!

    Reply
  29. Cixos says:
    April 3, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Men……i am really having a hard time whit this tutorial…..GOOD and IMPRESSIVE and i actually have boujou( btw F*****ING EXPENSIVE but i dint buy it XD) but i cant get the pass “camara solve” every time it finish i only have like 10 dots or so of a 40 sec video….I dont know if is the way i am shooting the video…. but if u gut any idea of wat is causing it then i be glad to hear…….

    P.S. I am a noobie to most of all this stuff…..but i learn fast….XDD

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  30. Cixos says:
    April 5, 2010 at 9:30 pm

    OK i found ma problem after reading some stuff and talking about it whit ma friends i think i know wat the problems is…..the things is every time i shoot a video i have turbulence there for …the track feature is going to be all around the place instead of going smoothly to the left/right side like its shows in the tutorial (4:48)…so i am guessing this some how affect camera solve thingy ……so yea i need a video whit no turbulence what so ever and see what happen…. and Adam i dont really get what u saying … u want to give me ur results ? …as in ur video?………..

    Reply
  31. quinn says:
    April 24, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    awesome tuts but what software did you use?-

    Reply
  32. RAJKUMAR says:
    July 22, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Thanks

    you are the great

    Reply
  33. saajukichu says:
    August 5, 2010 at 5:36 am

    nice one

    Reply
  34. cf says:
    August 20, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    very nice – I’m still learning…. I’m happy you posted this tutorial.

    Reply
  35. ST says:
    October 24, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Great. Thank you very much.
    :D

    Reply
  36. Max says:
    November 23, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks for sharing such pro stuff ;)

    respect

    Reply
  37. Ulises Bolivar says:
    January 11, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    interesante

    Reply
  38. srinidhi says:
    March 16, 2011 at 5:23 am

    this tut was awesome
    but can u plz tel me the plugins downloading sites

    Reply
  39. ali tuck says:
    March 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    how do break elements up into layers on illustrator?

    Reply
  40. denimgeek says:
    March 30, 2011 at 9:42 am

    Great tutorial, final result looks impressive.

    Reply
  41. Fun Stuff says:
    May 12, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Hi there.
    Thanks for the awesome tutorial you guys Rocks. This really Helped me alot on my Project for Fun Stuff. Thanks Again AE tuts Rocks !

    Reply
  42. mostafa says:
    August 30, 2011 at 7:51 am

    I need a footage to follow along, where I find one?

    Reply
  43. Sameer says:
    September 19, 2011 at 9:55 am

    where is part 2?? am i missing something or the remaining half isn’t uploaded yet?? please i need to watch how you used mocha.

    Reply
  44. Bogz says:
    September 27, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    Maybe your first tutorial but man you are great! I understood everything. I use AE long time now but i never stepped on Boujou before. Thank you for this great tut…

    Keep up the good work of sharing knowledge !!

    Reply
  45. javi says:
    October 7, 2011 at 11:16 am

    where is the link to download the files??

    Reply
  46. Mike says:
    November 6, 2011 at 3:21 am

    Excellent tutorial. Great effect, great explanations, and you have an AMAZINGLY pleasant voice to listen to. Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  47. SyLvia says:
    November 21, 2011 at 12:10 am

    I’ll been wondering how to do it in an easy way…thank you for sharing

    Reply
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