Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guide

After filming is done, digital compositors move in to manipulate color, retouch, and perform other behind–the–scenes tricks that are necessary to improve or finalize movies, games, and commercials. Now you can learn their secrets with this one–of–a–kind guide to digital compositing.

Professional animator and author Lee Lanier not only draws upon his own experience, he has also combed some of Hollywood′s most active post–production houses in search of the best solutions. Learn valuable techniques, tricks, and more.

* Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, particle integration, 2.5D painting, HDRI, stereoscopy and more
* Shows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke
* Includes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and more

Start your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you′ll find in this practical guide.