Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques

by Lee Lanier

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780470594544
  • Publish Date 11 May 2010 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 June 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Imprint Sybex Inc.,U.S.