Lee Lanier (USA Visual Effects Artist)

Digital Compositing with Nuke

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For novice compositors and veterans moving over from Shake or After Effects, this book is the essential guide for learning Nuke, the powerful, node-based compositing software and standard choice for the VFX industry. It provides a complete overview of the Nuke software, from an introduction to the user interface to more complex compositing tasks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Focal Press / Routledge
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: Y142088
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 192mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 917g
• ISBN-13: 9780240820354
• ISBN-10: 0240820355
• Artikelnr.: 33610026

Autorenporträt

visual effects/animation veteran of over 20 years. Formerly a senior animator at PDI/Dreamworks for Antz and the original Shrek, his other credits include Ace Ventura, James and the Giant Peach, and Escape from LA. Over the last decade, he has taught at several Academy of Art Universities as well as the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Chapter 1: Nuke Interface, Chapter 2: Transforming and Keyframing, Chapter 3: Bit Depths, Color Spaces, and Color Grading, Chapter 4: Alpha Mattes, Merging, and Rotoscoping, Chapter 5: Keying, Chapter 6: Manipulating Channels and Matching Artifacts, Chapter 7: Time Warping and Image Distortion, Chapter 8: Motion Tracking, Chapter 9: Working with 2.5D, 3D, and Stereoscopic 3D, Chapter 10: Optimization, Scripting, and New Techniques, Appendices, Index

Rezensionen

"There really is Nuke and nothing else. Other products out there are dying or don't have a future. Nuke is really moving forward in a changing industry."--Lindsay Adams, lead compositor, Animal Logic, Sydney, Australia

"There really is Nuke and nothing else. Other products out there are dying or don't have a future. Nuke is really moving forward in a changing industry."--Lindsay Adams, lead compositor, Animal Logic, Sydney, Australia