3D Camera for Shake

[nikew96]

From my novice perspective, it seems rather significant that Shake does not have 3D camera capability like Flame, the late Cyborg and even After Effects yet I've never encountered a Shake user that thought this was a problem. Am I missing something? Does Shake handle this in a different way or is it just a matter of time before Shake gets a 3D camera?

John

[masternull]

I would love a 3d camera in shake.

I think the reason nobody complains is because most of shake users works for big effect house, where resources are high. So when they need a 3d compositing package, they use flame or inferno, and when they don't need it, they use other package, like shake. Of course I might be wrong since I have no Idea how they really work.

For the do-it-all-one-man-team like my, I would love to have it all in on package. A nice tight integration with maya would be incredible. But it's not the case. So you find alternate ways of doing things.

[user_deleted]

Shake does have a 3d camera- Move3d, but it's not well documented, and doesn't easily correlate to the 3d camera of animation packages like Maya.

Most large facilities have match move departments, and tools which will export 3d tracking data in screen space. If you've got a Maya scene, properly matchmoved to your background plate, I'm pretty sure you can find the necessary tools for exporting tracking data from Maya to Shake on Highend 3d. Thus there's no need for a beast like an inferno.

[donkey001]

Hi guys,

So, can we really use 3d trakcing (camera) information from Boujou, Realviz, PFTrack or a 3D package inside Shake?

I understand that there is a Move 3D node in Shake which also has a Feild of View parameter, but is there a plugin or script to import the 3d tracking and apply it to this node?

Thanks.