What Compositing Technique Can Do in VFX

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What Compositing Technique Can Do in VFX
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Index

• Visual Effect Animation
• What Compositing Technique Can Do in VFX
• 1. Clean Up
• 2. Lighting Adjustment/Color Correcting
• 3. Editing Elements
• 4. And Whole Lot More

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Visual Effect Animation

• People think that VFX is the same as 3D
  Animation.
• But the fact is compositing technique, which is
  in the 2D department is the most common Visual
  Effect.
• VFX technique is applied in almost every film. If
  the shot has 3D objects, compositing is the last
  step to put all the elements together.

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• In many cases, compositors have to key all the
  green/blue screen, sometimes do the tracking, get
  all the different 3D elements from other team
  members, put those together and do all the
  necessary fixing and adjustments.
• In this PPT we discuss what compositing technique
  we can do.

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1. Clean Up

• If you need your actor flying, doing some
  dangerous action, or standing up high somewhere,
  for safety reasons, it is better to hang the
  actor on a wire to prevent any major injuries.
• Now you will need a compositor to help you remove
  the wires so your audience wont see it.

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• Lots of time, there are some flaws in footage
  that you didnt notice.
• Such as stains, undesirable reflections and
  random things like lighting gear and set up
  equipment that often gets in a shot and needs to
  be removed.

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2. Lighting Adjustment/Color Correcting

• The most common is turning day to night.
• Shooting at night time or low light is not easy
  and hard to control.
• The solution is filming it in the daytime and
  then color correct it to night time color and
  lighting.

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3. Editing Elements

• We are often adding something that wasnt there
  when you are shooting such as snow, rain, debris,
  flashing lights, blood, smoke, fog, lens-flare,
  etc.
• If you need a snowy day in the scene, instead of
  waiting for it to snow and trying to shoot in a
  low visibility situation, adding snow later in
  postproduction will save lots of trouble.

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• Or if your character needs to shoot somebody with
  a gun in the head, you will need a vfx team to
  add blood spraying and muzzle flashes.

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4. And Whole Lot More

• You might want to de-focus the background or
  other characters in the shot or make something
  stand out better.
• It is common for compositing (Compositing Editing
  Plus).
• Or your actor blinks his eyes when he shouldnt
  and you didnt notice, or there is some prop
  broken.

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• All these small issues you might not notice when
  on set but stand out later.

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