Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques

by Lee Lanier

Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guideAfter 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 moreShows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and NukeIncludes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and moreStart your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you'll find in this practical guide.

416 pages, ebook

First published December 9, 2009