Professional digital compositing : essential tools and techniques /

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 se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lanier, Lee, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., ©2010
Series:Serious skills
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Setting up a composite
  • Choosing a color space
  • Interpreting alpha and creating mattes
  • Channel manipulation
  • Transformations and keyframing
  • Convolution filters
  • Masking, rotoscoping, and motion tracking
  • DI, color grading, noise, and grain
  • Integrating render passes
  • Warps, optical artifacts, paint, and text
  • Working in 2.5D and 3D
  • Advanced techniques