Professional Digital Compositing
Essential Tools and Techniques
(Sprache: Englisch)
Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guideAfter filming is done, digital compositors move in to manipulate color, retouch, and perform other behind-the-scenes tricks that are necessary to improve or finalize movies, games,...
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Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guide
After filming is done, digital compositors move in to manipulate color, retouch, and perform other behind-the-scenes tricks that are necessary to improve or finalize movies, games, and commercials. Now you can learn their secrets with this one-of-a-kind guide to digital compositing.
Professional animator and author Lee Lanier not only draws upon his own experience, he has also combed some of Hollywood's most active post-production houses in search of the best solutions. Learn valuable techniques, tricks, and more.
* Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, particle integration, 2.5D painting, HDRI, stereoscopy and more
* Shows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke
* Includes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and more
Start your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you'll find in this practical guide.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Klappentext zu „Professional Digital Compositing “
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques is a practical guide to compositing for current professionals, along with aspiring artists wishing to enter the visual effects, feature animation, or commercial production industries. Author Lee Lanier taps his own experience at Walt Disney Studios and PDI/Dreamworks, as well as the skill sets of dozens of other professionals, to provide the latest techniques for digital compositing on topics such as color space transformations, plate preparation, filter mathematics, rotoscoping, render pass integration, 2.5D scene set-up, HDRI, stereoscopic workflows, and more. This four-color book covers important compositing theory as well critical tools, effects, filters, and nodes in Adobe After Effects and The Foundry Nuke. It includes professional-level After Effects and Nuke tutorials with support materials from the DVD (project files, scripts, sample bitmaps, footage, and CG sequences), as well as full-color images to fullyembody the techniques. In addition, Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques includes interviews with compositing experts from such studios as ILM, Sony Imageworks, Digital Domain, Blur, and a dozen more.
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques is a practical guide to compositing for current professionals, along with aspiring artists wishing to enter the visual effects, feature animation, or commercial production industries. Author Lee Lanier taps his own experience at Walt Disney Studios and PDI/Dreamworks, as well as the skill sets of dozens of other professionals, to provide the latest techniques for digital compositing on topics such as color space transformations, plate preparation, filter mathematics, rotoscoping, render pass integration, 2.5D scene set-up, HDRI, stereoscopic workflows, and more. This four-color book covers important compositing theory as well critical tools, effects, filters, and nodes in Adobe After Effects and The Foundry Nuke. It includes professional-level After Effects and Nuke tutorials with support materials from the DVD (project files, scripts, sample bitmaps, footage, and CG sequences), as well as full-color images to fully embody the techniques. In addition, Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques includes interviews with compositing experts from such studios as ILM, Sony Imageworks, Digital Domain, Blur, and a dozen more.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Professional Digital Compositing “
- Introduction.Chapter 1 Setting Up a Composite.
Chapter 2 Choosing a Color Space.
Chapter 3 Interpreting Alpha and Creating Mattes.
Chapter 4 Channel Manipulation.
Chapter 5 Transformations and Keyframing.
Chapter 6 Convolution Filters.
Chapter 7 Masking, Rotoscoping, and Motion Tracking.
Chapter 8 DI, Color Grading, Noise, and Grain.
Chapter 9 Integrating Render Passes.
Chapter 10 Warps, Optical Artifacts, Paint, and Text.
Chapter 11 Working with 2.5D and 3D.
Chapter 12 Advanced Techniques.
- Appendix About the Companion DVD.
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Lee Lanier
Lee Lanier is a 3D animator, digital compositor, and director. His films have played in more than 200 museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. Before directing the shorts Millennium Bug, Mirror, Day Off the Dead, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and 13 Ways to Die at Home, he served as a senior animator in the lighting and modeling departments at PDI/DreamWorks on Antz and Shrek. He created digital visual effects for such films as Mortal Kombat while at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios. Lee is the author of Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting and Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, both from Sybex. He currently teaches at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. You can view his work at BeezleBugBit.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lee Lanier
- 2009, Maße: 20,3 x 3,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470452617
- ISBN-13: 9780470452615
Sprache:
Englisch
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