Digital Compositing for Film and Video: Production Workflows and Techniques, 4th Edition

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. 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.