Ebook: Digital compositing for film and video: production workflows and techniques

1. Getting started -- 2. Pulling keys -- 3. Working with keyers -- 4. Refining mattes -- 5. Spill suppression -- 6. The composite -- 7. Compositing CGI -- 8. 3D Compositing -- 9. Color correction -- 10. Sweetening the comp -- 11. Camera effects -- 12. Digital color -- 13. Image blending -- 14. Transforms and tracking -- 15. Digital images.;"Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists. This expanded and updated edition of Digital Compositing for Film and Video addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis with an elegant blend of theory, practical production techniques and workflows. It is written to be software-agnostic, so it is applicable to any brand of software. This edition features many step-by-step workflows, powerful new keying techniques and updates on the latest tech in the visual effects industry."--