The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects offers a practical, detailed guide to visual effects for non-VFX specialists working in film and television. In contemporary filmmaking and television production, visual effects are used extensively in a wide variety of genres and formats to contribute to visual storytelling, help deal with production limitations, and reduce budget costs. Yet for many directors, producers, editors, and cinematographers, visual effects remain an often misunderstood aspect of media production. In this book, award-winning VFX supervisor and instructor Eran Dinur introduces readers to visual effects from the filmmaker's perspective, providing a comprehensive guide to conceiving, designing, budgeting, planning, shooting, and reviewing VFX, from pre-production through post-production.
The book will help readers:
Learn what it takes for editors, cinematographers, directors, producers, gaffers, and other filmmakers to work more effectively with the visual effects team during pre-production, on the set and in post, use visual effects as a narrative aid, reduce production costs, and solve problems on location;
Achieve a deeper understanding of 3D, 2D and 2.5D workflows; the various vfx crafts from matchmove to compositing; essential concepts like photorealism, parallax, roto and extraction; become familiar with the most common types of VFX, their role in filmmaking, and learn how to plan effectively for the cost and complexity of VFX shots;
See visual effects concepts brought to life in practical, highly-illustrated examples drawn from the real-world experiences of industry professionals, and discover how to better integrate visual effects into your own projects.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects is a unique and essential guide for filmmakers and producers to navigate the complex world of VFX to effectively make better films. You need to read this book if you are a filmmaker that needs a simple or complex visual effects shot; your film will be better, and it will be completed sooner and it will cost less if you understand how to work with VFX."
-John McIntosh, Chairman, School of Visual Arts, Computer Art, Animation and Visual Effects - Board of Directors, Visual Effects Society (VES) | New York
"The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects is an indispensable tool for filmmakers. Writing in a clear, concise style, the author makes the possibilities of VFX accessible to directors, producers, editors, cinematographers - anyone who wishes to know more about how to use its power to better tell their stories."
-Arthur Vincie, Writer/Director of Found In Time and Three Trembling Cities, Author of Preparing For Takeoff
"This book should be required reading for anyone working as a director, producer, DoP and many other roles, as well as film students. Working in the industry gives a fragmented familiarity with lots of VFX in practice; this book completes the picture and gives me - as a director, producer and First Assistant - a coherent view of why we use certain methodologies and how we can then envision and plan ambitious effects while saving time and money. An extremely useful resource that I'm sure I will return to again and again."
-Liz Gill, Author of Running the Show
"While there are many good VFX books out there aimed at the VFX artist, The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects fills a niche in providing filmmakers a comprehensive overview on how to successfully implement VFX techniques in their productions."
-Matthew McKenna, Senior Systems Director, School of Visual Arts
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-40199-9 (9780415401999)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Eran Dinur is an Emmy and VES Award-winning VFX supervisor, artist and instructor. His work at ILM Singapore includes films such as Iron Man, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Terminator Salvation. Since 2011 Eran has served as the VFX supervisor of NYC-based company Brainstorm Digital on numerous film and TV projects, including The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire, The Lost City of Z, Cafe Society, Nerve, Delivery Man, The Heat, The Men Who Built America, and The Immigrant. Eran won a Primetime Emmy Award as well as two Visual Effects Society Awards for his work on Boardwalk Empire. Eran teaches VFX production skills at the School of Visual Arts, has created popular online courses at fxphd, has written numerous articles for 3D World Magazine, and has presented at various international conferences including SIGGRAPH, NAB, and Mundos Digitales.
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Brainstorm Digital, USA
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Visual effects overview
Visual effects in contemporary film & TV
The invisible art of supporting VFX
Why use VFX?
VFX as a story-telling tool
Reducing costs
Creating the impossible
Fixing mistakes
Supporting the visual language
CGI: preconceptions and misconceptions
Visual effects in production: 3 case studies
Case study 1
Case study 2
Case study 3
Working with Key people in the VFX team
The VFX supervisor
The VFX producer
3D, 2D and 2.5D
Camera movement and parallax
Working in 2D
Working in 3D
"Fake" 3D: 2.5D projections
2D or 3D? Advantages and disadvantages
Part 2: VFX in depth
Introduction
The VFX chain in small and large facilities
2D tracking & Match move
2D tracking
Camera tracking
Modeling
Hard surface modeling
Organic modeling
Texturing
Shading & lighting
Shaders
Direct and ambient lights
Global illumination, ambient occlusion and HDRI
Animation
Technical animation
Character animation
Motion capture
Rigging
Simulations
Hard-body
Particles
Fluid
Cloth
Matte painting
Compositing
Rotoscoping
Keying
The final stage - how everything comes together
Compositing as a VFX powerhouse for the budget-conscious
Part 3: photorealism
Introduction
The search for clues
The integration checklist
Context
Movement and motion blur
Perspective
Light
Depth and atmosphere
Color
Focus
Optical phenomena
Grain
Part 4: Preproduction
Script-based VFX breakdown
Storyboarding
The bidding process
Initial meetings with the VFX team
Location scouting with the VFX team
Previz
Planning the shoot
Part 5: On set
The importance of a second unit
Shooting Green/blue screens
Crowd tiling
VFX vs. SFX
Dos and don'ts
Part 6: Postproduction
Understanding delivery formats
Establishing the color pipeline
The reviewing process
RND, assets, style frames and temps
The approval stages
Turntable
Layout
Primary animation
Secondary animation
AO
Textured
Final
Effective communication with the VFX team
The DI review
Glossary
