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Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters
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Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

by Oliver Villar
October 2014
Beginner
352 pages
11h 20m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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A Film without Visual Effects

Today, almost every single film has some visual effects. However, let’s consider a film that doesn’t have any visual effects. This will help you understand the basic process of film production, and then we’ll discuss some different production options.

Note

Remember that visual effects are not just explosions, spaceships, aliens, or monsters. There are a lot of visual effects (commonly referred to as invisible effects) that are much more subtle and you may not notice them while you’re watching a film. Set-extensions, background replacements or set cleaning, for example, are present in almost every single movie you watch and they are also visual effects.

During preproduction, the filmmakers create the film’s script ...

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