Compositing visual effects : essentials for the aspiring artist / Steve Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Steve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cinematography--Special effects.

Cinematography.

Computer graphics.

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Elsevier, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Visual Effects Today; 1.1 DIGITAL COMPOSITING WITH CGI; 1.1.1 CGI Compositing; 1.1.2 Set Extension; 1.1.3 Match Move; 1.2 COMPOSITING VISUAL EFFECTS; 1.2.1 Bluescreen Compositing; 1.2.2 Motion Tracking; 1.2.3 Warping and Morphing; 1.2.4 Bullet Time Shots; 1.2.5 Crowd Duplication; 1.2.6 Atmospherics; 1.2.7 Rotoscoping; 1.2.8 Wire Removal; 1.2.9 Scene Salvage; 1.3 3D COMPOSITING; 1.4 STEREO COMPOSITING; 1.5 STEREO CONVERSION; 1.6 COMPOSITING PROGRAMS

1.6.1 Node-based Compositors1.6.2 Layer-based Compositors; 2 Digital Images; 2.1 STRUCTURE OF DIGITAL IMAGES; 2.1.1 The Pixel; 2.1.2 Grayscale Images; 2.1.3 Color Images; 2.1.4 Four-channel Images; 2.2 ATTRIBUTES OF DIGITAL IMAGES; 2.2.1 Digitizing Images; 2.2.2 Image Resolution; 2.2.3 Image Aspect Ratio; 2.2.4 Pixel Aspect Ratio; 2.2.5 Display Aspect Ratio; 2.2.6 Bit Depth; 2.2.7 Floating Point; 2.2.8 Multiplying Images; 2.3 IMAGE FILE FORMATS; 2.3.1 Photographic Images vs. Graphics; 2.3.2 Indexed Color Images (CLUT); 2.3.3 Compression; 2.3.4 EXR; 2.3.5 File Formats; 2.4 DPI

3 Compositing CGI3.1 THE CGI COMPOSITE; 3.1.1 Scaling the Background; 3.1.2 Semi-transparent Pixels; 3.1.3 Summing the Layers; 3.2 MULTIPASS COMPOSITING; 3.2.1 Diffuse and Specular Passes; 3.2.2 Occlusion and Shadow Passes; 3.2.3 Reflection Pass; 3.2.4 Creative Control; 3.3 DEPTH COMPOSITING; 3.4 MULTIPLANE COMPOSITING; 3.5 SIMS; 3.6 PARTICLE SYSTEMS; 3.7 WORKING WITH PREMULTIPLIED CGI; 3.7.1 Color Correcting; 3.7.2 Transformations and Filters; 3.7.3 The Common Mistake; 3.8 3D COMPOSITING; 3.8.1 The 3D Compositing Environment; 3.8.2 Placing 3D in Live Action; 3.8.3 Placing Live Action in 3D

3.8.4 Set Extensions3.8.5 Camera Tracking; 3.8.6 Small 3D Tasks; 3.8.7 Conclusion; 4 Bluescreen Compositing; 4.1 THE BLUESCREEN COMPOSITE; 4.1.1 Pulling the Matte; 4.1.2 The Basic Composite; 4.2 ABOUT KEYERS; 4.2.1 How Keyers Work; 4.2.2 Despill; 4.2.3 Color Correction; 4.2.4 Scaling the Foreground and Background; 4.2.5 Sum the Layers; 4.2.6 The Final Composite; 4.3 HELPING THE KEYER; 4.3.1 Garbage Mattes; 4.3.2 Procedural Garbage Mattes; 4.3.3 Holdout Mattes; 4.3.4 Degrain; 4.4 COMPOSITING OUTSIDE THE KEYER; 4.4.1 Merging Multiple Mattes; 4.4.2 Performing the Despill; 4.4.3 Color Correcting

4.4.4 The Composite4.5 SHOOTING BLUESCREENS (AND GREENSCREENS); 4.5.1 Lighting the Backing; 4.5.2 Lighting the Talent; 4.5.3 The Backing Material; 4.5.4 Bluescreen vs. Greenscreen; 4.5.5 Bluescreen Floors; 4.5.6 Film Issues; 4.5.7 Video Issues; 4.5.8 Photography Tips; 5 Creating Masks; 5.1 KEY, MATTE, ALPHA, AND MASK; 5.2 CREATING A LUMA-KEY; 5.3 CREATING A CHROMA-KEY; 5.4 CREATING A MASK; 5.4.1 The Difference Mask; 5.4.2 The Color Difference Mask; 5.4.3 Geometric Primitives; 5.4.4 Drawing Shapes; 5.4.5 Painting a Mask; 5.4.6 Combo Masks; 6 Rotoscoping; 6.1 ABOUT ROTOSCOPING; 6.2 SPLINES

6.3 ARTICULATED ROTOS

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613164353

9781138474246

113847424X

9781136039225

1136039228

9781283164351

1283164353

9780240817828

0240817826

OCLC:

747411179