Hi all,<div>I've just start reading this new list and I could't resist in giving my feed back! :)</div><div>Hope it would be interesting :D</div><div>As Francois says lens distortion represents part of the language used by the Director and the DoP to tell a story.</div>
<div>Undistorted images, except some cases, are useful just for CG production purposes.</div><div>Once we comp a shot we do use lot of different footages to improve our scene and the ability to distort all the elements (not only the 3D part) will be a good plus Just think about matte painting and/or other kind of rushes and you'll get the point!</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are seeing blender becoming every day more procedural and I think to have the distortion as a camera shader or as a comp node were we can pass the data collected during the tracking solve would be a great choice (maybe in comp time will be faster to edit if we want to adjust it - without re-render) </div>
<div><br></div><div>As Ton says maybe at the moment is too early to talk about design and in fact tools to improve/edit/mask a sequence of images aren't related to the libvm.</div><div> </div><div>What is important is the definition of what is a "simple shot"</div>
<div>Camera tracking relies a lot on the experience of the artist whom, watching the clips, is able to take the (hopefully good) points and turn it into useful data.</div><div><br></div><div>There are lot of false friends in 3D tracking and a very simple tracker would require much more experience in understanding how to solve a clip :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>A tracker that isn't able to handle shot within a good range of situations isn't very useful... I'm not talking about hero shots I'm just thinking at situation like:</div><div>1. hand held shot with someone acting in front of the camera </div>
<div>2. wide environment with small parallax</div><div>3. fast moving medium shots</div><div><br></div><div>just shot that are always part of a storytelling process.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Francesco Paglia<div>
<div>VFX & Production supervisor</div><div>Spark D.E.</div></div>
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