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
Color Spaces
Retiming Clips
Working with Digital Cinema Images
OpenColorIO

A companion website offers images from the examples discussed in the book allowing readers to experiment with the material first-hand.