Professional digital compositing : essential tools and techniques / Lee Lanier.

By:

Lanier, Lee

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Indianapolis, Ind. : Sybex, 2010.Description: xix, 459 s. : ill. i farverISBN:

0470452617
9780470452615

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

777 LAN

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	777 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100443952

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Indeholder DVD.

index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lee Lanier is a 3D animator, digital compositor, and director. His films have played in more than 200 museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. Before directing the shorts Millennium Bug, Mirror, Day Off the Dead, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and 13 Ways to Die at Home, he served as a senior animator in the lighting and modeling departments at PDI/DreamWorks on Antz and Shrek. He created digital visual effects for such films as Mortal Kombat while at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios. Lee is the author of Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting and Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, both from Sybex. He currently teaches at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. You can view his work at BeezleBugBit.com.