NEW BOOKS TEACH COMPOSITING, COLOR CORRECTION
Compositing Visual Effects – Essentials for the Aspiring Artist is
a 250-page book by compositing veteran Steve Wright. Priced at $34.95,
the publication looks at topics such as CGI compositing, set extension,
match moving, bluescreen compositing, crowd duplication, rotoscoping,
wire removal, creating masks, and working with video and film, among
other subject. There is also a section that looks at both node-based
and layer-based compositing applications.
The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction
is a 375-page book by producer/online editor Steve Hullfish and looks
at correction techniques performed in applications that include Apple’s
Color, Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse and Avid Xpress, among
others. Priced at $49.95, the book is aimed at editors and motion
graphics artists, offering techniques for fixing poorly-exposed shots,
creating looks, matching shots and mastering secondary color
correction. It also looks at the use of color correction for advancing
a story.