Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work
for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing
Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots,
figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a
valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual
effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role.
Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of
digital compositing, you get a solid overview of the kinds of digital
effects routinely executed today. See how CGI is composited with live
action, how set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is.
Following that you learn each of the key applications of digital
compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet-time shots,
motion tracking, and rotoscoping. The subsequent chapters dig down into
each of the major digital compositing applications, introducing the
fundamental concepts, and processes behind them.
Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect
when working on a job that entails digital compositing. New to this
edition are 4 new chapters on:
* 3D compositing, with lessons on what camera tracking is, how it is
used to put CGI into a live-action plate, as well as live action into a
3D scene.
* Stereo compositing, with descriptions of key stereoscopic terms and
concepts, lessons on compositing shots that were filmed in stereo (both
bluescreen and CGI), as well as the stereo conversion process when a
flat 2D movie is converted to a stereo 3D movie
* RED and Digital Capture with Log Images, including log image formats.
This is a very hot topic these days. Colleges hang around video because
it is cheaper. Film is still big in the real world of production.
* Tracking an entire project from start to finish
This is in addition to robust updates on topics such as:
* planar tracking, Z compositing, working with Anamorphic HD formats,
mocap, and more
This edition also includes a companion website (https:
//routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/wright-9780240817811/resources.php)
with images from the book for you to work with in your own compositing
exercises.
- An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice and
aspiring compositors, from experienced author and compositing whose
compositing credits include Night at the Museum 2, Shutter Island,
Solaris, Traffic, and more
- Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the
practice, provides inspiration along with instruction
- New to this edition is a companion website, new chapters on 3D
compositing, stereo compositing, RED and digital capture with log
images, and more will have you understanding the latest in compositing
technology in no time
