TITLE: Mocha VFX
YOUR ROLE: Director/Lead VFX Artist
MEDIA: Visual Effects
SOFTWARE: Adobe After Effects
DURATION: 0:20
CLASS: FMX 322
PROFESSOR: Javier Olarte
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 23
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
DESCRIPTION: After Effects offers a variety of different features and addons, a rather useful one being Mocha, which can be used to apply tracking nodes to footage so that other elements follow those nodes. For this project, my task was to apply such tracking nodes to the road sign featured in the video and use it to simply add whatever I pleased. I decided to create a blank highway sign in a pre-composition, getting the colors and the tracking as accurate as I could. Part of the lower left right corner wanted to lift up completely during the track process but I eventually made it lower back down in size. From there, I applied animated text to turn the road sign into something of a title sequence, again color matching with the actual text part of the original footage.