Compositing Visual Effects - Essentials for the Aspiring Artist

Zusatztext ".Wright leads the reader through the entire process and techniques used to create blockbuster effects! but makes the journey easy for the layperson. This is a MUST-HAVE book for anyone who wants to know the magic that digital compositing is."- Jeffery Jasper! VFX Compositor! New Deal Studio (The Good Shepherd! X-Men 3! Pirates of the Caribbean 3) Informationen zum Autor Steve Wright is a visual effects compositing veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature films credits. He's developed video games at Atari, done 3D animations for Robert Abel and Associates, and was senior compositor and 2D technical director at Kodak's Cinesite. Steve is now a freelance, digital-compositing guru, who teaches, trains, writes, and develops on-line training programs. Klappentext First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1 Visual Effects Today, Chapter 2 Digital Images, Chapter 3 Compositing CGI, Chapter 4 Bluescreen Compositing, Chapter 5 Creating Masks, Chapter 6 Rotoscoping, Chapter 7 Image Blending, Chapter 8 Animation, Chapter 9 The Art of Compositing, Chapter 10 Scene Salvage, Chapter 11 Working with Video, Chapter 12 Working with Film, Chapter 13 Digital Capture, Chapter 14 Stereo Compositing, Chapter 15 Life of a VFX Shot, Glossary, Index.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Wright, Steve (Visual Effect Compositing Veteran Wright
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9780240817811
• ISBN: 978-0-240-81781-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Focal Press
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / General, Cinematography, television camerawork, Digital Video: Professional, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation