Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion

Essential Techniques

Lee Lanier (Visual Effects Artist, USA)

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Routledge
17 October 2016

Digital video: professional

Create complex composites with Blackmagic Fusion. Learn the basics of node-based compositing and get up to speed quickly so you can undertake your own compositing projects.

In Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion: Essential Techniques, industry veteran Lee Lanier covers the most important components, tools, and workflows any serious compositor needs to know. Practice your knowledge and skill as you read the book with the included mini-tutorials and longer chapter tutorials. An accompanying eResource features video image sequences, 3D renders, and other tutorial materials, allowing you to immediately practice the discussed techniques.

Critical topics in this book include:

Tool / Node networks

Color space and color channels

Transformations

Masking and rotoscoping

Keyframing and animation splines

Green screen keying

The Fusion 3D environment

Color grading and color manipulation

Filter tools

Motion tracking

Particle simulation

Stereoscopic workflow

By: Lee Lanier (Visual Effects Artist USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm,
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9781138668270
ISBN 10: 1138668273
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 17 October 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------- xi Chapter 1: Working with Tool Networks ------------------------------------- 1 Chapter 2: Manipulating Colors, Channels, and Spaces ---------- 15 Chapter 3: Combining Inputs and Recombining Render Passes -- 37 Chapter 4: Transforming and Motion Tracking ---------------------- 59 Chapter 5: Keyframing and Adjusting Animation Splines ------- 81 Chapter 6: Masking and Rotoscoping ---------------------------------- 97 Chapter 7: Altering Outputs with Filters ---------------------------- 121 Chapter 8: Chroma Keying ---------------------------------------------- 147 Chapter 9: Working in the Fusion 3D Environment -------------- 163 Chapter 10: Repairing, Painting, and Distressing ---------------- 191 Chapter 11: Rendering, Scripting, and Customizing -------------- 205 Final Tutorial: Creating the Cover Art -------------------------------- 218 Appendix A: Additional 3D Tools and Techniques -----------------230 Appendix B: After Effects to Fusion Guide --------------------------- 232 Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 235

Lee Lanier has worked as a professional computer animator and VFX (visual effects) artist since 1994. He has more than 70 features, shorts, music videos, trailers, and commercials to his credit. Lee has written ten high-end software books that have sold more than 30,000 copies, has authored VFX training videos for lynda.com, has taught VFX compositing at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, and is a member of VES (Visual Effects Society). A strong supporter of the arts, Lee co-founded the Dam Short Film Festival—Nevada’s largest film festival—and continues to serve as its executive director. He also co-manages the Boulder City branch of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, curates several art gallery spaces, and is an avid painter. You can see his work at beezlebugbit.com and diabolica-art.com.