September 2023
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
7h 10m
English
Content preview from The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 11The Future
This chapter is not an attempt to envision visual effects a hundred years from now. I will leave this to sci-fi writers and professional prophets. Instead, I am simply pointing out technologies and workflows that already exist and are likely to affect the way we create and use visual effects for movies and TV in the near future. Our forefathers lived in a world where technological changes happened slowly, over the course of many years, and where tradition and adherence to inherited knowledge were revered. In our contemporary world, technology changes ever so fast. In this constant race, there is a prevailing expectation for things to rapidly evolve and for the old to quickly become obsolete, ...
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