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Visual Effects
This section is being actively updated please forgive the intermediate state!

The intention of this area is to provide information about and examples of effects techniques and tools. This information will most likely be Macintosh centric as the mac is the most popular of the desktop effects platforms due to its superior handling of many different media. I will try to cover a good bit of the many facets of CGI (computer generated imagery) and do my best to refer you to a better source of more detailed info where my own reaches its limit. You may also wish to discuss these and other topics in the Visual Effects Forum.

Be sure to take a look at the Visual Effects Links and Digital Tools sections for a fairly comprehensive list of resources for further edification. Also note that as part of my own continuing project I will be making an effort to cover a topic which has gotten a lot of requests: How to get a job.

Topics Covered:

Compositing
Rotoscoping
Keying
Digital Paint
2D Animation
Motion Control
Morphing
Warping
Motion Tracking
3D Modeling and Animation
Motion Capture
Match-Move
On Set Playback / Monitor Burn In
Color Correction
I/O issues
Video-Centric Issues
DV-Centric Issues
Film-Centric Issues
Editing

And anything else that I can come up with or that you request.