Chapter 1 What Are Visual Effects?
Introduction
When considering the components that make up the real-time production process, visual effects are the most difficult to define. For brevity, instead of defining all that visual effects are, it may be easier to identify what visual effects are not. Within any computer-generated scene, the participant will find multiple familiar items: environments, animated characters, and props. Artificial environments define the story world’s settings, bounding what is conventional. They introduce the participant to what is typically expected or what is plausible for the scene. Characters are animated from keyframes or from motion capture. They interact with the environment and ...
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