The digital matte painting handbook
"The only how-to guide dedicated to mastering the technique of digital matte painting!Matte painting affords seamless integration between an artist's painting with live action film footage and allows for greater flexibility and creative input in the appearance of movie settings. This uniqu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indianapolis, IN
Wiley
2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Sybex serious skills
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Painting
- Importing the Painting into After Effects
- Adding a Camera to the Comp
- Turning Off Collapse Transformations
- Setting Up a Ground Plane Using a Solid
- Projecting a Texture onto the Ground Plane
- Positioning the Sky
- Positioning the Other Layers
- Animating the Sky
- Animated Lava
- Extracting Figures from Green Screen
- Adding the Keyed Figures to the Scene
- The Camera Move
- More Details
- Assignment: Create Your Own Vision of Hades
- A Final Note
- Appendix: About the Companion DVD
- What You'll Find on the DVD
- System Requirements
- Using the DVD
- Troubleshooting
- Customer Care
- Contact the Author
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The Digital Matte Painting Handbook
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Introduction
- My Story
- How This Book Came About
- Who Should Read This Book
- How to Contact the Author
- Chapter 1: What Is a Matte Painting?
- Matte Painting Defined
- A Brief History of Matte Painting
- Paint vs. Pixels
- Peter Ellenshaw
- Albert Whitlock
- Chapter 2: Photoshop Workspace, Tools, and Custom Brushes
- The Digitizing Tablet
- Setting Up Your Workspace
- Photoshop Panels
- Using Custom Brushes
- Working with Image-Based Brushes
- Chapter 3: Composition and Concept
- Creating a Castle on a Hill
- Creating a Concept Sketch
- Assignment: Create Your Own Castle Concepts
- Chapter 4: Perspective Basics
- A Brief History of Linear Perspective
- The Three Types of Perspective
- Chapter 5: Perspective Drawing
- Setting Up Your Vanishing Points
- Drawing the Basic Shapes
- Adding Detail to the Castle
- The Ellipse Bank
- Dividing a Round Tower
- Adding Fine Detail
- The Final Drawing
- Assignment
- Chapter 6: Form
- Finding the Light and Dark Sides
- Cast Shadows
- Cores
- Final Form Layer
- Adding the Line Drawing
- Assignment: Tone Your Castle Drawing
- Chapter 7: Texturing and Color Correction
- Blending Modes
- Texturing The Castle
- Finding Reference Photos
- Levels and Curves in Color Correction
- Working with Reference Photos
- Lighting the Scene
- Creating the Sky
- The Top Painting Layer
- Assignment: Texture and Finish Your Castle
- Chapter 8: Preparing Your Photoshop File for Camera Projection in Maya
- What is Camera Projection?
- Getting Started in Camera Projection
- Setting Up for Camera Projection
- Adding the Image Plane
- Positioning the Camera Using the Reference Grid
- Assignment: Prepare Your Castle for Camera Projection, and Set Up the Maya File
- Chapter 9: Building Geometry for Camera Projection in Maya
- Lining Up the Reference Box
- Sculpting the Foreground Hill
- Adding the Sky
- Adding the Remaining Geometry
- Assignment: Build Geometry for Your Castle
- Chapter 10: Projecting Textures in Maya
- Adding Materials to Geometry
- Adding the Animated Camera
- Final Troubleshooting
- The Final Animation
- Assignment: Assign Textures and Create an Animation Using Your Own Castle
- Chapter 11: Lighting Techniques
- Day-for-Night
- Preparing the Daytime Plate
- Preparing the Nighttime Plate
- Adding Life to the City
- Relighting
- The Night Sky
- Assignment: Take Your Own Plate From Day to Night
- Chapter 12: Changing Seasons
- The Summertime Plate
- The Wintertime Plate
- Bonus Section: Dusk
- Assignment: Take Your Own Photo From Summer to Winter
- Chapter 13: Getting Started in After Effects
- Preparing a Painting for After Effects
- Getting Into After Effects
- Setting the Duration of the Animation
- Animating the Sky
- Precomposing the Summer Version
- Cross-Dissolving to the Winter Version
- Animating the Winter Sky
- Dissolving to the Winter Dusk
- Effects
- Adding a Snow Effect
- Varying the Lights
- Moving the Smoke
- Final Camera Move
- Easing Out, Easing In
- The Render Queue
- Time Remapping
- The Final Animation
- Assignment: Create an Animation Changing Summer To Winter Using Your Own Painting
- Chapter 14: Working over a Moving Plate
- The Plate
- The Painting
- Megastructures
- Compositing the Painting over a Moving Plate
- Positioning Layers in 3D Space
- Parenting Layers Together
- Adding Moving Spotlights to a Building
- Adding a Video Billboard
- Preparing the Project for Animation
- Animating the City
- Expressions
- Film Grain
- Assignment: Create Your Own City
- Chapter 15: Using After Effects' True 3D Space