The art and science of digital compositing : techniques for visual effects, animation and motion graphics / Ron Brinkmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinkmann, Ron, author.

Series:

The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (705 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

*The classic reference, with over 25,000 copies in print, has been massively expanded and thoroughly updated to include state-of-the-art methods and 400+ all-new full color images!At ILM, compositing is one of the most important tools we use. If you want to learn more, this excellent 2nd-edition is detailed with hundreds of secrets that will help make your comps seamless. For beginners or experts, Ron walks you through the processes of analysis and workflows - linear thinking which will help you become deft and successfully tackle any shot. - Dennis Muren ASC, Senior Visual Effects

Contents:

Front Cover; The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction to Digital Compositing; Definition; Historical Perspective; Terminology; Organization of the Book; Chapter 2 Learning to See; Judging Color, Brightness, and Contrast; Light and Shadow; The Camera; Resolution Limits; Focus and Depth of Field; Lens Flares and Other Lens Artifacts; Motion Blur; Depth, Distance, and Perspective; Perspective and the Camera; Depth Cues; Visual ""Correctness""

Chapter 3 The Digital Representation of Visual InformationImage Generation; Pixels, Components, and Channels; Spatial Resolution; Bit Depth; Normalized Values; Beyond Black and White; Floating-point and High Dynamic Range Imagery (HDRI); The HSV Color Representation; The YUV Color Representation; Image Input Devices; Digital Image File Formats; File Format Features; Variable Bit Depths; Different Spatial Resolutions; Compression; Comment Information in a Header; Additional Image Channels; Vendor-specific File Format Implementations; Compression; Run-length Encoding; Lossy Compression

Chroma SubsamplingImage Sequence Compression; Choosing a File Format; Nonlinear Color Encoding; Chapter 4 Basic Image Manipulation; Terminology; Color Manipulations; RGB Multiply; Add; Gamma Correction; Invert; Contrast; Channel Swapping; HSV Manipulations; Look-up Table Manipulations; Expression Language; Spatial Filters; Convolves; Blurring; Sharpen; Median Filter; Geometric Transformations; Panning; Rotation; Scale; 3D Transforms; Warping; Expression Language; Filtering Algorithms; Motion Blur; Chapter 5 Basic Image Compositing; Multisource Operators; Add; Subtract; Mix; The Matte Image

The Integrated Matte ChannelOver; Additional Operators; Multiply; Screen; Maximum and Minimum; In; Out; Atop; Masks; Compositing with Premultiplied Images; Color Correcting and Combining Premultiplied Images; Luminosity and the Image-Matte Relationship; Morphing; Chapter 6 Matte Creation and Manipulation; Rotoscoping; Techniques; Motion Blur; Limitations; Procedural Matte Extraction; Keying Based on Luminance; Keying Based on Chrominance; The Color Difference Method; Difference Matting; Specialized Keying Software; Matte Manipulations; Checking the Solidity of your Matte; Garbage Mattes

Edge MattesCombining Mattes; Image Processing on Mattes; Chapter 7 Time and Temporal Manipulations; Apparent Motion; Temporal Resolution; Temporal Artifacts; Changing the Length or Timing of a Sequence; Keyframing; Chapter 8 Image Tracking and Stabilization; Tracking an Element into a Plate; Choosing the Feature to Track; Limiting the Search Area; Human Intervention; Using Tracking Curves Manually; Tracking Multiple Points; Stabilizing a Plate; Camera Tracking; Chapter 9 Interface Interactions; Workflow; The Evolution of Interactivity; Methods of Representing the Compositing Process

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [627]-630) and index.

Description based on online resource: title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed September 1, 2023).

ISBN:

9786612711183

9781282711181

1282711180

9780080879260

0080879268

OCLC:

664571384