Apple Pro Training Series Encyclopedia of Visual Effects

by Allen, Damian; Connor, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780321303349
• ISBN10: 0321303342
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-02
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

The ultimate effect recipe book covers not just one but three software packages: Shake, After Effects, and Motion!

Author Biography

Damian Allen is a commercial artist and president of Pixerati LLC, a Los Angeles-based visual effects design and consultancy corporation Brian Connor teaches visual effects and compositing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco

Table of Contents

Contributors	iv
Foreword	xix
Getting Started	xxiii
Compositing Fundamentals
3D Fundamentals	3	(20)
Integrating 3D into Live Action	4	(4)
Multipass Compositing	8	(8)
Special Render Passes	16	(2)
Time-Saving Techniques	18	(2)
Final Evaluation	20	(3)
Keying Fundamentals	23	(18)
Mattes, Alphas, and Keys	24	(2)
The Blue Screening Process During Production	26	(2)
The Blue Screening Process During Postproduction	28	(13)
Tracking Fundamentals	41	(60)
The Categories of Tracking	42	(4)
The Many Dimensions of Tracking	46	(3)
Manual and Automatic Tracking	49	(1)
Three-Dimensional Tracking	49	(2)
The Process of Tracking	51	(2)
Identifying and Establishing Tracking Points	53	(1)
Subpixel Resolution	54	(1)
Tracking Preprocessing	55	(1)
Tracking with Concatenation	56	(2)
Concatenation Workflow	58	(3)
Limitations to Tracking Operations	61	(3)
Encyclopedia of Visual Effects
3:2 Pull-Down Removal	64	(3)
4:x:x Simulation	67	(1)
8 Bit	68	(1)
Alpha Channel	69	(1)
Ambient Occlusion Passes, Using	69	(13)
Anaglyphic Stereoscopy	82	(1)
Anamorphic	82	(1)
Animation	82	(1)
Aspect Ratio	82	(1)
Background Hole Filling	83	(1)
Background Plate	83	(1)
Background Wrap	83	(8)
Beauty Pass	91	(1)
Bits per Channel	92	(1)
Bits per Pixel	92	(1)
Black Level	92	(1)
Black Levels, Checking/Gamma Slamming	93	(1)
Blanking	94	(1)
Bleach Bypass	94	(2)
Blemish Removal	96	(1)
Blink Repair	97	(3)
Blue Screen	100	(1)
Blur	100	(1)
Frankenstein's Third Dimension---Todd Vaziri	101	(54)
Camera Diffusion Simulation	107	(3)
Camera Mapping	110	(1)
Camera Shake, Smoothing and Removal	110	(7)
Cel Shade, Live Action	117	(2)
Choking Mattes	119	(1)
Chroma	120	(1)
Chroma Blur	120	(3)
Chroma Keying	123	(2)
Clamping Mattes	125	(1)
Clamping, Subzero	126	(3)
Clean Plate	129	(2)
Clean Plates, Generating	131	(5)
Clipped Highlights, Fixing	136	(1)
Clipping Repair	136	(6)
Codec	142	(1)
Color Correction	142	(1)
Color Depth	142	(1)
Color Matching	142	(8)
Combining Mattes	150	(1)
Component Video	150	(1)
Composite	151	(1)
Composite Video	151	(1)
Compositing Outside the Keyer	151	(2)
Compression	153	(1)
Concatenation	154	(1)
Contrast	154	(1)
Contrast Match, Checking	154	(1)
Core Matte	154	(1)
Cameo Anatomy of a Lightsaber Duel	155	(54)
Brian Connor
Dailies	163	(1)
Data Rate	163	(1)
Day for Night	163	(3)
Decompression	166	(1)
Deinterlacing	166	(6)
Depth Keying	172	(7)
Depth Matte	179	(1)
Desaturate	179	(1)
Difference Matte	180	(7)
Diffuse Pass	187	(1)
Diffusion Simulation	187	(1)
Digital Foundation	187	(1)
Dolly	187	(1)
Dust Busting	187	(3)
Edge Blend	190	(1)
Edge Matte	191	(4)
Edge Matte/Core Matte	195	(13)
Effects	208	(1)
Duran Duran in 3D---Pixerati	209	(53)
Face Replacement	216	(10)
Fade	226	(1)
Faux Shadows	227	(1)
Filmic Fade	227	(4)
Filter	231	(1)
Flipbook	231	(1)
Float Image	231	(1)
Float Space	231	(4)
Fog	235	(1)
Footage Acquisition, Blue Screen and Green Screen	235	(6)
Four-Point Tracking	241	(1)
Frame	241	(1)
Frame Blending	241	(1)
Frame Rate	241	(1)
Fresnel Shading Pass	241	(7)
Gain	248	(1)
Gamma	248	(1)
Gamma Slamming	248	(1)
Garbage Matte	248	(3)
Gate Weave, Correcting	251	(1)
Gradient	252	(1)
Grading	252	(1)
Grain Matching	252	(4)
Grain Removal	256	(3)
Grain Removal via Warp	259	(2)
Gray Ball	261	(1)
Green Screen	261	(1)
Grunge Pass	261	(1)
Slicing Time	262	(29)
Tim Macmillan
HDR Shop	266	(1)
HDRI (High Dynamic-Range Imaging)	266	(3)
High-Key Images	269	(1)
Histogram	269	(1)
Holdout Matte	270	(3)
Hot Spots, Removing	273	(10)
Interlaced Video	283	(1)
Inverse Core Garbage Matting	283	(1)
JPEG HDR	283	(1)
Key	284	(1)
Keyframe	284	(1)
Keying	284	(1)
Keying Generic Elements	285	(5)
Knot	290	(1)
Kodak Cineon	290	(1)
There Goes the Neighborhood	291	(48)
Marshall Krasser
Lens Diffusion Simulation	297	(1)
Lens Flare	297	(1)
Lens Warping	297	(3)
LIDAR	300	(1)
Light Probe	300	(1)
Light Probe, Lighting 3D Scenes With	301	(13)
Light Wrap	314	(1)
Lightsaber, Creating	315	(19)
Light Stage	334	(1)
Low-Key Images	334	(1)
Luma	334	(1)
Luma Edge Keying	335	(1)
Luma Keying	336	(1)
Luminance	337	(1)
Luminance, Weighted	338	(1)
The Art of Matte Painting	339	(50)
Yanick Dusseault
Macros	343	(1)
Mask	343	(1)
Master Shot	343	(1)
Matchmoving	343	(1)
Matchmoving in Perspective	344	(7)
Matte	351	(1)
Matte Painting	352	(1)
Mattes, Combining	352	(3)
Mattes, Shrinking and Expanding	355	(5)
Motion Tracking	360	(1)
Motion Vector Pass	361	(2)
Multipass Compositing	363	(1)
Multipass, Basic Passes	364	(10)
Multipass, per Light	374	(8)
MultiPlane Compositing	382	(1)
Nest	383	(1)
Neutralizing Black and White Points	383	(4)
Nonsquare Pixel	387	(1)
NTSC	387	(1)
NTSC Legal	387	(1)
Offset Tracking	388	(1)
Opacity	388	(1)
OpenEXR	388	(1)
The Sands of Jarhead	389	(24)
Martin Rosenberg
PAL	395	(1)
Pan	395	(1)
Penumbra of Shadows, Varying	395	(1)
Perspective Match	395	(3)
Photogenics	398	(1)
Photosphere	399	(1)
Pixel	399	(1)
Pixel Aspect Ratio	399	(1)
Plate	399	(1)
Point Cloud	399	(1)
Post	400	(1)
Premultiplication	400	(1)
Primatte	400	(1)
Process Tree	400	(1)
Production	400	(1)
Proxy	400	(1)
Radiance	401	(1)
Radiosity	401	(1)
Radiosity, Faux	401	(2)
Ramping	403	(2)
Real Time	405	(1)
Reflection Pass	405	(1)
Reflections, Faux	406	(6)
Render	412	(1)
Render File	412	(1)
Roto	412	(1)
Rotoscoping	412	(1)
Rushes	412	(1)
Harry Potter's 2D Wizardry	413	(40)
Tim Alexander
Saturation	416	(1)
Screen Blur Composite	416	(2)
Screen Color Selection	418	(3)
Screen Replacement	421	(18)
Scrub	439	(1)
Shadow Displacement Map	439	(1)
Shadow Pass	440	(1)
Shadows, Faux	440	(12)
Shadows, Harvesting	452	(1)
Sharpening	452	(1)
Bringing Frank Sinatra ``Back to Life''	453	(58)
J Bills
Skin Repair (Digital Foundation)	463	(7)
Sky Keying	470	(3)
Smoke	473	(1)
Smoothing	473	(1)
SMPTE	473	(1)
Specular Pass	473	(1)
Speed Changes	473	(1)
Spill	473	(1)
Spill Suppression	474	(7)
Split Screen Composites	481	(4)
Square Pixel	485	(1)
Stabilization	486	(1)
Standard Definition	486	(1)
Starfields, Moving	486	(1)
Stereoscopy	487	(9)
Stereoscopy from 2D	496	(6)
Stop-Motion Animation	502	(1)
Subtraction Matching	503	(3)
Super Black	506	(1)
Super White	506	(1)
Surface Normal Lighting	506	(5)
Van Ride Through War of the Worlds	511	(64)
Pablo Helman
Tilt	517	(1)
Time Remapping	517	(1)
Time Slice	517	(1)
Timecode	517	(1)
Timecode Gap	517	(1)
Title Safe	518	(1)
Tracking	518	(1)
Tracking Marker Removal	518	(1)
Transfer Modes	519	(1)
Transparency, Simulating	519	(9)
Truck	528	(1)
Up-Conversion	529	(1)
Vapor	529	(1)
Variable Speed	529	(1)
Video-in-Text Effect	529	(1)
Vignette	529	(1)
Warping	530	(1)
White Balancing	530	(1)
White Level	530	(1)
Wide-Screen Mask Filter	530	(1)
Wire Removal	530	(2)
X Axis	532	(1)
Y Axis	532	(1)
YIQ	532	(1)
YUV	532	(1)
Z Axis	533	(1)
Z Depth Pass	533	(2)
Appendices
Appendix A How to Install a Shake Macro	535	(4)
Appendix B Shake in a Day	539	(36)
Introduction	539	(1)
Shake Workflow	540	(6)
A Basic Composite	546	(6)
Going Further	552	(15)
Adding a Vignette and Film Grain	567	(2)
Using the Flipbook	569	(4)
Conclusion	573	(2)
Index	575