Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing, you get a solid overview of the kinds of digital effects routinely executed today. See how CGI is composited with live action, how set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is. Following that you learn each of the key applications of digital compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet-time shots, motion tracking, and rotoscoping. The subsequent chapters dig down into each of the major digital compositing applications, introducing the fundamental concepts, and processes behind them. Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect when working on a job that entails digital compositing. New to this edition are 4 new chapters on: * 3D compositing, with lessons on what camera tracking is, how it is used to put CGI into a live-action plate, as well as live action into a 3D scene. * Stereo compositing, with descriptions of key stereoscopic terms and concepts, lessons on compositing shots that were filmed in stereo (both bluescreen and CGI), as well as the stereo conversion process when a flat 2D movie is converted to a stereo 3D movie * RED and Digital Capture with Log Images, including log image formats. This is a very hot topic these days. Colleges hang around video because it is cheaper. Film is still big in the real world of production. * Tracking an entire project from start to finish This is in addition to robust updates on topics such as: * planar tracking, Z compositing, working with Anamorphic HD formats, mocap, and more This edition also includes a companion website with images from the book for you to work with in your own compositing exercises. An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice and aspiring compositors, from experienced author and compositing whose compositing credits include Night at the Museum 2, Shutter Island, Solaris, Traffic, and more Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the practice, provides inspiration along with instruction New to this edition is a companion website, new chapters on 3D compositing, stereo compositing, RED and digital capture with log images, and more will have you understanding the latest in compositing technology in no time An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice and aspiring compositors, from experienced author and compositing whose compositing credits include Night at the Museum 2, Shutter Island, Solaris, Traffic, and more Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the practice, provides inspiration along with instruction New chapters on 3D compositing and stereo compositing will have readers understanding the latest in compositing technology in no time Companion website, compositingvfx.com features sample videos and other bonus materials

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史蒂夫·賴特（Steve Wright），好萊塢數字特效閤成大師、VFX公司培訓專傢，曾任柯達旗下電影製作者辦事處的高級閤成師和技術總監，有著20多年從業經驗，參與過70多部商業廣告和70多部電影的拍攝，代錶作有《禁閉島》、《博物館奇妙夜》、《蝙蝠俠與羅賓》。現在賴特在全球各地的教育機構中教授特效閤成技術、Nuke和Shake軟件課程，著有《視效閤成初級教程》。更多信息請訪問他的個人網站www.vfxio.com。

▌譯者

李念蘆，原北京電影學院影視技術係教授，碩士生導師。《中國電影專業史研究——電影技術捲》作者。曾主講電影電視技術概論課並擔任電影學院技術學科的領導，為學院電影技術數字化進程做瞭多項工作。現為中影培訓基地的校長。

柳思憶，曾任職於海納、視點特藝等國內外多傢電影後期特效公司，長期從事影視後期製作工作。現就職於中影技術培訓分公司（中影培訓基地），擔任影視後期專業教學主管。