Book description
Create vibrant visual effects with Adobe After Effects. Gain the tips, tricks, and applied knowledge you need to carry out essential visual effects tasks and bring your digital compositing to the next level.
In Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects, industry veteran Lee Lanier covers all the common After Effects techniques any serious visual effects artist needs to know, combining the latest, professionally-vetted studio practices and workflows with multi-chapter projects and hands-on lessons.
Engaging, full-color tutorials cover:
- Altering resolutions and frame rates
- Channel and color space manipulation
- Rotoscoping and masking
- Matchmoving and motion tracking
- Keying green screen
- Working in the 3D environment and integrating 3D render passes
- Particle simulation
- Color grading and distressing
- Expressions and project management
The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/lanier) features video image sequences, 3D renders, matte paintings, and other tutorial materials, allowing you to immediately apply the techniques taught in the book.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Selecting Color Spaces, Resolutions, and Frame Rates
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Chapter 2: Generating Alpha with Keyers and Mattes
- Generating Alpha with Chroma Key Techniques
- Using Keylight
- Working with Imperfect Green Screen
- Applying Additional Keylight Properties
- Using the Primatte Plug-In
- Using Difference Keyers
- Using Range Keyers
- Suppressing Spill
- Altering Alpha with Mattes
- Chapter Tutorial: Keying a Difficult Green Screen, Part 1
- Chapter 3: Masking, Rotoscoping, and Basic Keyframing
- Chapter 4: Transforming and Motion Tracking
- Chapter 5: Working with the 3D Environment
- Chapter 6: Creating Particle Simulations
- Chapter 7: Integrating Render Passes
- Chapter 8: Color Grading, Color Effects, and HDRI
- Chapter 9: Damage Repair and Distressing
- Chapter 10: Expressions, Scripting, and Project Management
- Index
Product information
- Title: Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2015
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317622116
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