Professional digital compositing : essential tools and techniques /

Professional digital compositing : essential tools and techniques /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lanier, Lee, 1966-
Imprint:	Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 459 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language:	English
Series:	Serious skills Serious skills.
Subject:	Adobe After effects. Adobe After effects Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing. Computer animation. Image processing -- Digital techniques. Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing Computer animation Image processing -- Digital techniques
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13596118

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ISBN:	9780470594520 0470594527 9780470452615 0470452617
Notes:	Includes index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Lanier, Lee, 1966- Professional digital compositing. Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., ©2010 9780470452615

Table of Contents:

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