Compositing Visual Effects - Essentials for the Aspiring Artist

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Wright, Steve (Visual Effect Compositing Veteran Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138474246
• ISBN: 978-1-138-47424-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; History, Media Studies, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production