The Filmmaker’s Guide to Visual Effects: The Art and Techniques of VFX for Directors, Producers, Editors and Cinematographers

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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 recent filmmaking and television production, visual effects are used extensively in all kinds of genres and formats to contribute to visual storytelling, help care for production limitations, and reduce budget costs. Yet for plenty of directors, producers, editors, and cinematographers, visual effects remain an ceaselessly 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 all over 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 more than a few VFX crafts from matchmove to compositing; essential concepts like photorealism, parallax, roto, and extraction; grow to be familiar with the commonest types of VFX, their role in filmmaking, and discover ways 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.

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