Blender for Visual Effects

Table of contents

1. Acknowledgments
2. Biography
3. Chapter 1 - Problem Definition
   1. Introduction
   2. Approaching the Task
   3. Additional Materials
   4. Summary
4. Chapter 2 - Preparation
   1. Getting Ready
   2. Setting up Blender
   3. Shooting
   4. Calibration
   5. Summary
5. Chapter 3 - Tracking
   1. Basics of Tracking
   2. Preparing the Footage
   3. Working with the Tracker
   4. Calibration inside Blender
   5. Placing the Marks
   6. Solving the Tracking
   7. Applying the Solved Camera
   8. Plane Track
   9. Summary
6. Chapte 4 - Scene Setup
   1. World Creation
   2. Setting up Elements
   3. Lighting
   4. Summary
7. Chapter 5 - Rendering
   1. Internal Render vs. Cycles Render
      1. Internal Render Pros and Cons
      2. Cycles Render Pros and Cons
   2. Rendering with Layers
   3. Understanding the Render Passes
      1. Combined (RGBA)
      2. Depth (Z)
      3. Ambient Occlusion (AO)
      4. Shadow
      5. Vector
      6. Normal
      7. Object Index
      8. Material Index
      9. UV
   4. Formats
      1. Basic Channel Format
      2. Multichannel Format
   5. Render Settings
      1. Render Device
      2. Dimensions
      3. Sampling
      4. Light Paths
      5. Film
   6. Overscan
   7. Summary
8. Chapter 6 - Masking
   1. Starting to Mask
   2. Clean Plate Preview
   3. Refining the Mask
   4. Tracking the Mask
   5. Frame-by-Frame Painting
   6. Summary
9. Chapter 7 - Compositing
   1. First Steps
   2. Nodes Overview
      1. Inputs
         1. Render Layers
         2. Image
         3. Texture
         4. Value
         5. RGB
         6. Time
         7. Movie Clip
         8. Bokeh Image
         9. Mask
         10. Track Position
      2. Outputs
         1. Composite
         2. Viewer
         3. Split Viewer
         4. File Output
         5. Levels
      3. Layout
         1. Frame
         2. Reroute
         3. Switch
      4. Group
      5. Distort
         1. Translate
         2. Rotate
         3. Scale
         4. Flip
         5. Crop
         6. Transform
         7. Displace
         8. Lens Distortion
         9. Map UV
         10. Stabilize 2D
         11. Movie Distortion
         12. Plane Track Deform
         13. Corner Pin
      6. Matte
         1. Difference Key
         2. Color Spill
         3. Distance Key, Chroma Key, Color Key, and Channel Key
         4. Keying
         5. Luminance Key
         6. Double Edge Mask
         7. Keying Screen
         8. Box Mask and Ellipse Mask
      7. Converter
         1. Combine and Separate (RGBA, HSVA, YUVA, YCbCr)
         2. Alpha Convert
         3. Math
         4. ID Mask
         5. Set Alpha
         6. RGB to BW
         7. ColorRamp
      8. Filter
         1. Filter
         2. Blur
         3. Directional Blur
         4. Bilateral Blur
         5. Vector Blur
         6. Dilate/Erode
         7. Inpaint
         8. Despeckle
         9. Defocus
         10. Glare
         11. Bokeh Blur
         12. Pixelate
         13. Sun Beams
      9. Vector
         1. Normal
         2. Vector Curves
         3. Normalize
         4. Map Value
         5. Map Range
      10. Color
          1. RGB Curves
          2. Mix
          3. Hue Saturation Value
          4. Bright/Contrast
          5. Gamma
          6. Invert
          7. AlphaOver
          8. Z Combine
          9. Color Balance
          10. Hue Correct
          11. Tonemap
          12. Color Correction
   3. Compositing the Scene
   4. Film Grain
      1. Fake Grain
      2. Real Grain
   5. Vignetting
   6. Preview
   7. Rendering Limitations
      1. Depth Pass
      2. ID Passes
   8. Final Notes
   9. Summary