Boris FX Mocha Pro: Add Face Paint with PowerMesh and the Insert Module

In this in-depth tutorial, Boris FX Senior Product Specialist, Mary Poplin, shows you how to add face paint to a person using Mocha Pro's PowerMesh and the Insert Module inside of After Effects.

PowerMesh adds a unique, sub-planar workflow for motion tracking organic movement on skin and fabrics. The Insert Module is used to composite the inserted graphic with warped distortion and motion blur.

Mocha Pro is available as a standalone application and as a plugin for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Nuke, Fusion, Flame, Vegas Pro, and more.

[ChristiaanRoest]

Thanks for sharing your tutorial Mary! I remember you making a tracking video with this girl before.

[englishforsrilanka]

Thank you for this tutorial.
Can you also make a tutorial on how to add embossed surfaced vein growth using mocha pro? Most of the lessons online are too complicated but you seem like a fantastic teacher.

[GarethOwenFilmGOwen]

This is awesome, I would love to see the same effect implied into Nuke but get confussed between this and ambliec tracking data info

[jmricks]

Any examples of how to use PowerMesh on something like a forearm that then rotates 180 degrees? I had a client ask to put tattoos on one side of the forearm (palm facing up), then they would rotate the arm revealing the other side of the arm (palm facing down). I did a number of test shots but was having real trouble getting the textures to stick and not freak out as the tracking data would eventually be lost since it wasn't visible to the camera any longer. We ended up abandoning the idea and putting tattoos on someone's back. But if there are any ideas on how to successfully pull that off, let me know.

[rahuldeshpande]

Great tutorial! Question. I thought the powermesh subplanar tracker is very sensitive, so when we draw a spline, we should not include things that are outside the texture or area we are interested in? This was also stated this way in the Mocha More than the Essentials course.
Another question. We're not Roto'ing for sure, but I was expecting that the Face track woudl only be done using 'Shear' since this is an organic shape. However, my guess is, since PowerMesh comes into the picture, things are slightly different because the powermesh is also warping the spline (otherwise the spline/track would be super flat if we were using perspective)

[WaqasYTC]

Sorry for being too random but I've noticed a problem in Mocha and Silhouette that the animation tends to drift from frames and when I purge the ram it comes back to its intended place but I have to purge ram in each and every frame.
Am I the only one facing this issue?

[larc-productions]

Hi !
How long the shoot can be actualy?
I've try on a 45sec shoot, after 10sec vertex start to collapse nor weird / random directions.
Too much to be corrected properly...
How can I solve that please?
Split the shoot is not an option, cause each part will "start over" and will not be consistant with previous on...
Thank you sooo much for any help / advise! :)

[ManzoorStrange]

please also share the same footage and pictures, we want to try it please

[SR_PRODUCTIONS]

why is tracking so bad in mocha AE? i try and try and try to track simple things and it warps if the camera turns even a little. I cant afforc mocha pro.

[chumcool]

"Wait... Why don't I have PowerMesh Warp option? Please tell me I don't have to s.p.e.n.d m.o.r.e m.o.n.e.y on this..."

The above is a COMMENT that I posted to this channel at an earlier time, and it was deleted for reasons unknown. Why?
Just in case, as a clever EDIT, I have separated the letters of a few certain words within the sentence with periods. I have a theory...