Professional digital compositing essential tools and techniques. - Description based on print version record. - Includes index

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. Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, 2.5D painting and more, showing how they can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke, in a book that is accompanied by a DVD that includes scenes, sample bitmaps and image sequences. Original. 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 2.5 D Advanced techniques.