Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques Book/DVD Package

Description

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 more

  
Start your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you'll find in this practical guide.

  Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

CONTENTS:

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.

  
Index.