Professional digital compositing : essential tools and techniques

Lanier, Lee 1966- (Author).

Summary: 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.: Cov.

Record details

ISBN: 0470452617
ISBN: 9780470452615
ISBN: 0470594527
ISBN: 9780470594520
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 459 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
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Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., ©2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 2.5D and 3D -- Advanced techniques.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.