This practical, hands-on guide addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis. You are presented with tips, techniques, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, color artifacts, mismatched lighting and other commonly-faced compositing obstacles. Practical, in-depth lessons are featured for bluescreen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, as well as color-correction. The book is presented entirely in an application-agnostic manner, allowing you to apply lessons learned to your compositing regardless of the software application you are using. The DVD contains before and after examples as well as exercise files for you to refine your own techniques on. New to the 3rd edition is an entirely new chapter entitled 'CGI Compositing Techniques', covering how the modern CGI production pipeline is now pushing many tasks that used to be done in the 3D department into the compositing department. All technological changes that have occurred between now and the publication of the 2nd edition are covered, as well as new media on the DVD and corresponding lessons within the book.* 20+ year VFX veteran Steve Wright provides you with professionally proven tricks, tips, and solutions to the complicated and difficult compositing issues that you face * New edition features brand new chapter on CGI Compositing Techniques, new media files on the DVD with corresponding lessons in the book, and more * DVD is packed with instructive before and after examples as well as exercise files that allow you to refine your own technique
| ISBN | 9780240813103 | | Format | Electronic Book | | ISBN13 | 9780240813103
(What's this?) | | Pages | 512 | | Publisher | Elsevier Science | | Previous ISBN | 9780240813097 | | Imprint | Focal Press | |
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