Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
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Lee Lanier is a 3D animator, digital compositor, and director. His films have played in more than 200 museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. Before directing the shorts Millennium Bug, Mirror, Day Off the Dead, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and 13 Ways to Die at Home, he served as a senior animator in the lighting and modeling departments at PDI/DreamWorks on Antz and Shrek. He created digital visual effects for such films as Mortal Kombat while at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios. Lee is the author of Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting and Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, both from Sybex. He currently teaches at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. You can view his work at BeezleBugBit.com.

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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.

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