UTILISE AI TOOLS WITH NVIDIA AND NOTCH

Discover how the easy-to-use Virtual Background and Body Tracker tools can enhance your visual effects workflow

- Armin Kazlauskas

This tutorial will introduce you to two powerful NVIDIA AI-driven tools: Virtual Background and the Body Tracker. These new features are directly integrated into Notch and open up hundreds of exciting uses for motion graphics and realtime artists.

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Armin Kazlauskas

Armin Kazlauskas is a motion grapher, VJ and visual performer. At Notch he works as a Lead Trainer, responsible for creating teaching material and educating people on using Notch. www.arminwerx.com / notch.one

For example, the Virtual Background removal workflow eliminates the need for green screen keying, and the Body Tracker tool simply uses a 2D video of the human form to create a 3D skeleton rig that tracks a person’s movements.

We’ve packaged the Virtual Background technology into a single node in Notch to make it easy for users. This node uses NVIDIA RTX-enabled GPUs to pick out human forms in videos or images and remove them from the background, outputting a greyscale mask. The mask will isolate talent from their environment in both pre-recorded and live video – making this a revolutionary tool for artists working in live effects and concert visuals. As a result, artists can have the power to capture their talent, separate them from the background noise and transport them into a world of real-time audio responsive and interactive VFX.

The AR Body Tracker takes a video input and analyses it for human motion and then applies that animation to a 3D character. It works using a simple webcam or pre-captured video footage and nothing more! Plus, this simple setup eliminates the need for expensive tracking or motion capture suits.