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.