Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle – Day 1

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.

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Requirements: 3D Matchmoving software, in this tutorial Naim uses Boujou (download the trial version here) but any matchmoving software will work. A very affordable option is PFHoe (download the trial version here). Other options are Synth-Eyes (download the trial version here) and PFTrack (download the trial version here)
Mocha for AE which ships with After Effects CS4. To use with CS3 you can get Mocha AE here

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  1. Quddus ahmed says:

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

  2. Alex says:

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

  3. sunny singh says:

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

  4. okar says:

    Good tutorial!!!

  5. janna says:

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

  6. harsh says:

    good work

  7. reaily help to this tutorial
    thanks

    to all of you

  8. Tapas Mukherjee says:

    Great!!Thanx

  9. camille says:

    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 !

  10. rajh says:

    Thanks dude !!! Nice Work !!!

    : )

  11. Tobisama says:

    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!!

  12. mughal sahib says:

    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

  13. twain says:

    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?

  14. moer says:

    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?

  15. ashraf says:

    WOW
    Amazing !!!!!

  16. Franz Flores says:

    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

  17. jujubi says:

    nice tuts and great job

  18. Chris says:

    very nice tuts. very helpful. thanks!

  19. juver says:

    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……..

  20. anistock says:

    great tutorial, like it

  21. horacio says:

    exelente material

  22. jang says:

    thank you!! that’s great work

  23. jen says:

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

  24. pedro says:

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

    Thanks

  25. pedro says:

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

  26. pelle says:

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

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