Digital Compositing for Film and Video

Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists.

This expanded and updated edition of Digital Compositing for Film and Video addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis with an elegant blend of theory, practical production techniques and workflows. It is written to be software-agnostic, so it is applicable to any brand of software. This edition features many step-by-step workflows, powerful new keying techniques and updates on the latest tech in the visual effects industry.

Workflow examples for:

• Grain Management
• Lens Distortion Management
• Merging CGI Render Passes
• Blending Multiple Keys
• Photorealistic Color Correction
• Rotoscoping

Production Techniques for:

• Keying Difficult Greenscreens

  Replicating Optical Lens Effects

  Advanced Spill Suppression

  Fixing Discoloured Edges

  Adding Interactive Lighting

  Managing Motion Blur

With brand new information on:

• Working in linear

  ACES Color Management

  Light Field Cinematography

  Planar Tracking

  Creating Color Difference Keys

  Premultiply vs. Unpremultiply

  Deep Compositing

  VR Stitching

  3D Compositing from 2D Images

  How Color Correction ops Effect Images

  Color Spaces

  Retiming Clips

  Working with Digital Cinema Images

  OpenColorIO

A companion website offers images from the examples discussed in the book allowing readers to experiment with the material first-hand.