Book description
If you are new to Discreet combustion, or moving over to use this powerful animation and effects software from another effects package, then this is the book for you. It gives you all you need to know to get up and running with combustion, fast! It includes an overview of all the key features you need when starting out with simple and concise details on how to use them and how best to integrate the power of combustion into your workflow.An ideal Discreet combustion primer for computer graphics students or professionals with some prior experience in the field of computer graphics. Learn how to do many familiar concepts such as animating with paint and layers of video specifically in combustion. This guide will provide a jump-start into the major features of the software without going too in-depth about every single button in the program. Through the use of various samples and screen captures, you will learn why an artist would use one tool over another in addition to just what the different buttons do.
Topics covered would include disciplines for motion graphics artists, broadcast designers, 3d animators, web artists, compositors and visual effects artists working for video and film based productions. People within the computer graphics industry of all sorts can take advantage of combustion because it is both a stand-alone application and also a bridge to several different disciplines including video editing, 3d animation, matte painting, 2d illustration and web design.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About this Book
- Platforms
- About the Footage
- About the Author
- A Few Thanks
- 1. Preferences, UI and Key Terms
- 2. Workflow Basics, Footage and Viewports
- 3. Paint and Text Operators
- 4. Compositing in 2D and 3D
- 5. The Schematic View (Go with the Flow)
- 6. Selections and Masks
- 7. Working with Color
- 8. Keying and the Discreet Keyer
- 9. The Tracker
- 10. Animation and the Timeline
- 11. A/V Editing
- 12. Expressions
- 13. Integrated Particle System
- 14. Rendering and Output
- Appendix I: File Sizes and Formats
- Appendix II: Glossary/Index of combustion Terminology
- Index
Product information
- Title: Focal Easy Guide to Discreet combustion 3
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136144776
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