VFX Fundamentals

• A unique enough or first to market compact book on new digital video effects (VFX)

• Uses the popular and now free Fusion design tool

• Wallace Jackson is the author expert behind this book as part of series

  A unique compact book on new digital video effects (VFX) Uses the popular and now free Fusion design tool Understand what goes into VFX production and its data optimization

  Autorentext

  Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

  Inhalt

Chapter 1: Visual Effects: Setup Your VFX Content Workstation.- Chapter 2: The Foundation of Raster for VFX: Pixels, Color and Alpha.- Chapter 3: The Foundation of Motion for VFX: Frames and Codecs.- Chapter 4: The Foundation of Audio for VFX: MIDI, Wave and Sample.- Chapter 5: The Foundation of 2D Vector for VFX: Point, Path and SVG.- Chapter 6: The Foundation of 3D Vector for VFX: Models and OpenGL.- Chapter 7: Professional VFX Software: Blackmagic Design Fusion.- Chapter 8: VFX Pipeline Composition: Using the Flow Node Editor.- Chapter 9: VFX Pipeline Animation: Using the Timeline Editor.- Chapter 10: VFX Pipeline Motion Control: Using the Spline Editor.- Chapter 11: VFX Pipeline Pixel Isolation: Using Animated Polyline Masking.- Chapter 12: VFX Pipeline Automated Masking: Matte Generators.- Chapter 13: VFX Pipeline Pixel Tracking: Using Motion Tracking.- Chapter 14: VFX Pipeline 3D Production: Compositing 3D Assets.- Chapter 15: VFX Pipeline 3D Rendering: Shader, Material and Texture.- Chapter 16: VFX Pipeline 3D Modeling: 3D Text Title Creation.- Chapter 17: VFX Pipeline 3D Animation: 3D Text Titling Modifiers.- Chapter 18: Advanced VFX Pipeline Effects: 3D Particle Systems.- Chapter 19: Advanced VFX Pipeline Physics: 3D Particle Physics.- Chapter 20: Advanced Interactive VFX: i3D Content Publishing.-