Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Understanding Camera Tracking

Before you start the process of tracking, it’s important that you understand how it works.

1. First, you load a video and track features using the tracking tools in Blender. Good features are typically details in the video that are highly visible, static relative to the world, and have a high contrast. Tracking uses these features found in the video to establish which way the objects in the video are moving relative to the frame. Although this is done frame by frame, it’s usually pretty automatic as Blender can track the features for you.

2. Next, when you have enough tracked markers in the video, you input the camera settings to tell Blender the type of camera and lens you used to film the video. If you don’t know ...