Compositing Visual Effects

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Visual Effects Today

1.1    Digital Compositing with CGI

1.1.1    CGI Compositing

1.1.2    Set Extension

1.1.3    Match Move

1.2    Compositing Visual Effects

1.2.1    Bluescreen Compositing

1.2.2    Motion Tracking

1.2.3    Warping and Morphing

1.2.4    Bullet Time Shots

1.2.5    Crowd Duplication

1.2.6    Atmospherics

1.2.7    Rotoscoping

1.2.8    Wire Removal

1.2.9    Scene Salvage

1.3    Compositing Programs

1.3.1    Node-Based Compositors

1.3.2    Layer-Based Compositors

Chapter 2

Digital Images

2.1    Structure of Digital Images

2.1.1    The Pixel

2.1.2    Grayscale Images

2.1.3    Color Images