Digital Compositing for Film and Video: Production Workflows and Techniques

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.
Workflow examples for:


Grain Management


Lens Distortion Management


Merging CGI Render Passes


Blending Multiple Keys


Photorealistic Color Correction


Rotoscoping


Production Techniques for:


Keying Difficult Greenscreens


Replicating Optical Lens Effects


Advanced Spill Suppression


Fixing Discoloured Edges


Adding Interactive Lighting


Managing Motion Blur


With brand new information on:


Working in linear


ACES Color Management


Light Field Cinematography


Planar Tracking


Creating Color Difference Keys


Premultiply vs. Unpremultiply


Deep Compositing


VR Stitching


3D Compositing from 2D Images


How Color Correction ops Effect Images