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Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques

• ISBN13: 9780470452615
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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

After Effects CS4 Essential Training

Product Description
In After Effects CS4 Essential Training, Chad Perkins teaches fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. He shows how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects, from creating a galaxy to building a fantasy battle scene. Chad also demonstrates workflows for keying and compositing, shows how to integrate with other applications, shares useful tips and secrets, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course. Topics Include:

• Importing assets with Bridge
• Blending layers in a composition
• Animating static images with the Puppet tool
• Color-correcting video footage
• Animating in 3D
• Stabilizing shaky footage
• Nesting and precomposing
• Creating visual effects from scratch
• Exporting to video and other media

Duration: 8.75 hours On 1 DVD-ROM System Requirements Macintosh Requirements

• OS 10.3.9 or higher
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1024×768 resolution
• 24-bit video support
• QuickTime 7 or higher

Windows Requirements

• XP or Vista
• DVD-ROM Drive
• 1024×768 resolution
• 24-bit video support
• PC sound card/speakers
• QuickTime 7 or higher (included)
• .NET 2.0 or higher (included)

After Effects CS4 Essential Training

Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies

• ISBN13: 9781932907230
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
• Notes:

Product Description

Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies