I made a tutorial for adding a 3D animated mech to live action footage from start to finish including everything from the NLA editor, adding Filmic Blender, motion tracking, using the free Render Farm Sheep It and editing. I hope you can find this helpful.
Robot VFX Tutorial
Free Mech
http://dreamfirefilms.com/index.php/product/rainmaker/
Here’s all of the topics that are covered and their times. This list is also in the video’s description.
Files 01:20
Animation Mocap NLA 03:02
Materials / Textures 11:48
HDRI 16:53
Modifier / Subdivision 17:51
Color / Filmic 18:17
Planning VFX Shots 21:18
Motion Tracking Shot #1 24:44
Motion Tracking Shaky Shot 41:14
Add Camera Shake / Wiggle 48:12
Nodes (After Effects Users) 53:19
Render Settings (Sheep it Render Farm) 54:37
Transparent Exports 1:01:57
Editing 1:05:04
John