The official Syntheyes Tutorial Area of their website has a number of good tutorials covering all aspects of the software. If you are new to the app, this should probably be your first port of call (click here to go there)

Matthew Merkovich has done a number of syntheyes tutorials.

He has been a match over for eons so to show the sorts of things he has worked in I’ll pop his Minority Report and Dr Doolittle demos below (which are an interesting behind th scenes anyway)

Now to the syntheyes stuff. First up a basic intro to syntheyes interface.

Rubiks Cube tracking

If you want to do head/face object tracking in syntheyes, have a look at the below series. The first ones cover a basic head track, his second series shows how to track ad forming face (to get a deforming mesh).

 Next is his head tracking series:

Tracking Face Deformations (soft tracking)

Here is another intro tutorial by Fenix Motion Graphics

Samuel Fuller also has done a two part intro tutorial 

Pixel bump also have a gory face track using syntheyes, realflow, maya and after effects

Some of these are over a decade old and though the tools used have changed since then, the techniques still remain the same for the most part. The things that have changed are generally ways we can track these roto shapes onto moving objects in the frame (examples of which are using a planar tracker like mocha, or smart vectors, or projection on a 3d tracked card).

The Art Of Rotocoping

This is a great fxguide article outlining the history, applications, software and basic tips.

Scott Squires Rotoscoping

Great videos showing a good rundown of rotoscoping techniques for beginners.

0:41 Rotoscoping Basics and Examples

2:50 Tracing for animation

6:42 Matting with GreenScreen

8:02 Garbage Matting

9:55 Mid Ground Roto

12:08 Compositing Mid Ground

14:54 Creating Twins

19:10 Colorizing

20:36 Animated Wipe

Here is his article on rotoing hair.

Silhouette Roto tutorial video

Mocha Pro Rotoscoping Basics

Nuke Rotoscoping Basics

I just came across this interesting technique that Magno Borgo came up with for using the Splinewarp in Nuke as a cunning way to achieve a multipoint track of an object (good for organic shapes that need to warp more than the 4 points of a corner-pin you might get from Mocha or using the planar_project gizmo might do). 

This works for both tracking objects into a shot or for stabilizing an object. Check out the video below on how to do this and what it can be used for…

…then head to his page (click here)  for links to the python scripts he’s made to automate the process (and while you’re at it check out his reel, he is part of Boundary VFX, an international group of artists that work remotely on vfx jobs from all over the world, specializing in helping out other vfx companies that are snowed under and need additional workers to complete a deadline).

The “step up to nuke” videos were a series The Foundry put together in 2013 to help After Effects users get used to the Nuke way of working. The jump from a layered based comper to a node based one can be quite a shock to the system (as can going from nodal to layer), so it was great they made this series. I’m lucky to have used both (After Effects for a lot of TV work and Shake/Nuke for film work) and appreciate the benefits of both. For me it was always a case of which tool for which job, …if it was going to involve a lot of quick changes in timings of elements possibly with a director lurking over my shoulder, then After Effects would be used (timeline is so quick and easy plus the Ram preview is super quick compared to previewing in Nuke). If I wanted to build a big or complex comp, then Nuke was the way to go due to its flexibility and ease to see an overview of everything, without the layering of precomps (as you would do in After Effects). Especially useful if you are handed someone else’s script or come back to one of your own from ages past. Nuke thankfully is catching up in the timeline stakes with giving us the ability to slide timings of layers and keyframes around a lot easier in the dopesheet, so I don’t really miss After Effects these days. But enough of me blabbing. Below is a quick blurb why some FX artists have made the swap from AE to Nuke, then there are the 11 quick introductory Nuke tutorials geared towards After Effects users. It is for v7 of Nuke but the fundamentals are the same in more recent versions of Nuke.

Here is a link to get a 15 day trial of Nuke to try out if you wish to see if you like the interface.