Chapter Fifteen. Advanced VFX Techniques VI: Cutting-Edge 3D VFX

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As I’ve shown throughout this book, VFX is all about creating “effects”—meaning, creating things that either don’t really exist or re-creating things that do exist but that wouldn’t be practical, cost effective, or safe to film in real life. I’ve also explained how the goal of a VFX artist is to always keep an eye on creating the absolute best possible effects using the most efficient and economical means possible. If you project these values forward to the future, you can easily see how beneficial it would be to, say, not have to model and light an entire set or environment but ...

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