Bank-key: Professional Digital Compositing-Essential Tools and Techniques

Professional Digital Compositing - Essential Tools and Techniques
English | Sybex 2009 | PDF & DVD | ISBN: 0470452617 | 480 pages | 20 MB + 2.94 GB
Genre: Video Training
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 secrets with this one-of-a-kind guide to digital compositing. Professional animator and author Lee Lanier not only draws upon his own experience, he has also combed some of Hollywood's most active post-production houses in search of the best solutions. Learn valuable techniques, tricks, and more.
Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, particle integration, 2.5D painting, HDRI, stereoscopy and more * Shows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke * Includes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and moreStart your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you'll find in this practical guide.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Setting Up a Composite.
Chapter 2 Choosing a Color Space.
Chapter 3 Interpreting Alpha and Creating Mattes.
Chapter 4 Channel Manipulation.
Chapter 5 Transformations and Keyframing.
Chapter 6 Convolution Filters.
Chapter 7 Masking, Rotoscoping, and Motion Tracking.
Chapter 8 DI, Color Grading, Noise, and Grain.
Chapter 9 Integrating Render Passes.
Chapter 10 Warps, Optical Artifacts, Paint, and Text.
Chapter 11 Working with 2.5D and 3D.
Chapter 12 Advanced Techniques. Appendix About the Companion DVD.
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