#Visual effects and compositing full#
#Visual effects and compositing software#
#Visual effects and compositing professional#

#Visual effects and compositing software#

So why don’t we just chose one colour space for everything?Ĭolour spaces are mostly designed to bridge the gap between software and hardware. RAINBOW can be said to have a very small gamut.

The range of values that can be represented are known as the colour space’s gamut (not to be confused with gamma). A certain colour that can be represented by one colour space, my not be accurately reproduced by another. You can also hopefully see that there are limitations.

Different colour spaces are kind of like different languages, and we need to be able to interpret between them. Shame on me! It does however illustrate my point that a colour space is just a way of numerically representing colours that some sort of device can interpret. It’s possibly the worst colour space ever invented. It can’t display black or white and has no latitude for hue or saturation. It can only represent seven solid colours with no gradation between them. If the metadata is missing then the computer will take a guess as to the colourspace and most likely assume sRGB (the most common colour space for computer monitors).Ĭolourwheel in RAINBOW colour space, but incorrectly interpreted as sRGBįrom the above images you can probably see that our RAINBOW colour space has some pretty crippling limitations. That pixel will then be displayed as red on your monitor, and so on. If a pixel has a value of 0.1, the computer will refer to RAINBOW in it’s list of colour spaces and find that 0.1 should be red. When you open the file, your computer will read the metadata, seeing that it is in RAINBOW, and then start reading the image data. RAINBOW colour space is going to be very simple and only represents 7 possible colours, with corresponding values of 0.1 – 0.7.Ġ.1 = Red, 0.2 = Orange, 0.3 = Yellow, 0.4 = Green, 0.5 = Blue, 0.6 = Indigo, 0.7= VioletĪn image file that is encoded in RAINBOW colour space will simply contain a long list of the above numbers (one for each pixel), and hopefully a bit of metadata noting that is is in RAINBOW colour space. You'll learn everything you need to know to begin working in the world of visual effects as an industry professional.This subject can be a pretty daunting, so to simplify let’s start by inventing our own colour space.

#Visual effects and compositing full#

Building on this strong foundation of compositing and visual effects, you'll be prepared for the advanced section of the book which teach skills, such as 2D, 2.5D & 3D digital matte painting and projections, film colorization, particle systems, fluid and rigid body dynamics, full digital environments, digital destruction, advanced lighting and rendering techniques, stereoscopic 3D, 2D to 3D conversions, and expert 3D and Photoshop extraction and modeling techniques that can only be described as magic! Throughout the lessons, you'll glean insider advice on cutting edge methods that even experienced professionals will find amazing. And then experiment with a wide range of 2D, 2.5D & 3D visual effects, including 3D CGI, crowd replication, face replacements, faking shadows, reflections and Z depth, atmospheric, smoke, cloud & heat FX, sky replacements, day-for-night and digital 3D HUD FX. You'll start with a solid understanding of the basics of visual effects and compositing, the fundamentals of bluescreen and greenscreen keying, 3D texturing, cloning, wire & rig removal, rotoscoping, 2D and 3D motion tracking, and matchmoving. Seasoned visual effects producer Jon Gress has refined the teaching of the skills and techniques presented in this book for over a decade to distill them down to the most effective methodology, delivered in a way that's both fun and easy to understand while being state-of-the-art for industry professionals.

#Visual effects and compositing professional#

In this latest book in the critically-acclaimed series from New Riders you'll learn all of the techniques and skills that will take you from beginner to visual effects (VFX) professional in just one book.