Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
- ISBN13: 9780470452615
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Product 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.
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
This book will catapult your skills to the next level with all of the fantastic and practical information that it has to offer. I have always been amazed at how in depth Lee Lanier gets with his subject matter. He truly has a gift that few posess. He cuts through the technical blah blah and presents his message clearly and concisely, leaving the reader eager and ready to move into the next chapter with the new found knowledge they possess. Studying under Lee was and always will be one of the highlights of my career.
-Mike Stolworthy
Rating: 5 / 5
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
While not as glorious as 3D animation or as artsy as digital design, digital compositing is the unsung hero of multiple industries. Without it the 3D animation would never make it to the screen and beautiful artwork would never come alive.
As an industry professional and project manager for a video slot design company I use After Effects more than any other program. Our animation departement uses After Effects to bring Illustrator artwork to life with animation unparalleled in the industry. Digital composting programs are very powerful tools, when a client needs animation in a key colored transparency, I use AE effects to quickly give each frame a hard edge dithered to a background and drop a green key behind it all. When used in games you’d never know that it was a simple key colored gif being used as there are no pixelated edges or green halos no matter how intense the animation. With that I’m always looking for new tricks to make my professional life easier.
I’m always blown away by the power and depth of programs like AE and Nuke. This book is written by an industry giant that makes me feel like a mere mortal in terms of understanding the programs. But thankfully he puts, in tireless detail, much of his knowledge in a form that is easy to grasp and quick to reference. The companion DVD is very useful in illustrating many of the featured technique’s finer points. There is much I knew the programs are capable of and searching the web for the right tutorials can often be unrewarding. This book outlines many of the techniques I’m looking for and more I didn’t even know I needed but are now invaluable.
A must have for any industry professional or student.
Rating: 5 / 5
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques