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Foundation Blender Compositing |  | Author: Roger Wickes
Publisher: friends of ED
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Pages: 500
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1430219769
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6930285536
EAN: 9781430219767
ASIN: 1430219769
Publication Date: August 7, 2009
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Product Description
Anyone who uses Blender needs this book. Blender users know that it can be used for modeling, animation, and rendering, but it can also be used as a fully functional compositing and post-production application. This book explores Blender's use as a compositing and post-production tool in the video and film production pipeline. In this book, you will learn how to: - Create and apply masks and special effects in Blender
- Composite images using Blender's Node-based Compositor
- Sequence and overlay video and audio using Blender's Non-Linear Editor
What you'll learn This book provides concise yet step-by-step examples on using all of the power of Blender to provide a complete post-production workbench. Specifically, this book shows you how to: - Create Masks and Rotoscope video
- Texture mattes and video planes
- Composite any image or render with other images
- Introduce special effects, such as blur, smoke, and light.
- Add titles and text, mixes, fades, wipes and splices
- Remove Green Screen and composite CG with live action shots
- Assemble all the shots and audio into a completed movie
Who is this book for? Film and video professionals and enthusiasts interested in an open source alternative to commercial compositing and video effects software like AfterEffects, Fusion, and Shake.
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Any computer video producer needs this November 17, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
A DVD is included with this in-depth survey of how to use the Blender program to maxim advantage. It's the world's foremost open source computer graphics digital content authoring system and has been used to create cartoons, shorts, TV commercials, and more. The software and references on the companion DVD support a step-by-step approach to animating elements and sequencing shots with audio. Any computer video producer needs this.
A new way to handle 2D effects October 19, 2009
Wolfram (Germany)
As a long-time supporter of Blender I've bought nearly ALL books (and DVDs) that dealt with the program suite.
What makes this book singular is that it DOES NOT deal with Blender as a modeling tool for 3D scenery but as an editor to add a lot of groovy post-production effects to your movies.
The most astonishing side-effect for me was that I can even achieve advanced 2D effects like the Disney studios on their multiplane camera, where different cell layers are moved in parallel in 3 (!) dimensions to produce travelling effects "normal" 2D animation cameras are not capable of. Just imagine that you can use various 2D planes in motion as freely as if you had coloured glass panes in your hands !
Anybody who wished to imitate those scrolling titles of the Star Wars saga disappearing into a star-filled sky - here you are: just use Blender's compositing tools following the examples of Wickes' book.
In vain did I look for a 2D animation tool to bring different texts with different fonts and scriptures together to dance merrily with each other - now I can import those texts as shapes into Blender, animate them on different layers and add those spicy fog, sandstorm or other particle effects to them just using Blender !
One of the best investments I ever made was when I helped to buy Blender free, followed by ordering Wickes' groundbreaking edition of "Blender Compositing".
Happyness is reading this book August 20, 2009
R. Love (MO USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am not a writer so this will be short. I love this book and really enjoy Rogers style. If you want to expand your knowledge of Blender this book will take you there. After going thru some of the little projects you can really, REALLY realize how powerful a program Blender is. Thanks to people like Rodger who share their knowledge with the rest of us.
Wow! Just what I have been waiting for!!! August 8, 2009
Joel Godin (Venice, Florida)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Blender is an amazing 3D software with incredible potential for Film/Video effects, compositing, and editing, and now a great book to explain it all.
If you're making movies, full featured films, or just exciting videos for the internet and you want to do it yourself you have got to get Blender (free) and this book.
Roger has written this information in such a way that makes it an easy read, an easily remembered instructional format by associating what is being done and why it is being done, and a touch of history as to how it has been done, that really makes it hard to put this book down.
I wish more hi-tech writers would write in this non-dry style as Roger has.
Roger is one of those few writers that obviously thought out before-hand the best way to get an idea or instruction across in the best method possible and not just how to get another book out on the shelves.
I swear if I had to write this book it would have taken 10 years to cover all the information that is covered here in an easily understandable way.
After reading this book I'll be using Blender instead of all those other expensive programs I've used in the past such as After Effects, Morph Age, Shake, and even Final Cut. Blender can do it all and now I have a road map on understanding how it can be done.
This book should have been called 'Film/Video/Animation/Special EFX Bible'.
At $31 this is the best books I've bought in a long time.
Excellent...you might have DVD problems though July 31, 2009
M. Carson
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Like many Blender users, I've really been anticipating this one. I pre-ordered the book and it arrived about an hour ago.
It's probably too early to give a long review of the text itself. So I'll just say that if you're interested in special FX or compositing in general, and you are interested in using Blender for those sorts of things, you should buy this book. If you have already done some compositing, but are worried you might be missing a few tools or techniques, this should also be a good pick for you. It is set up such that it should make a good reference text.
Also, thank heavens for the nice use of selectively colored text, italics, callouts, etc. One of my gripes about "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash" was that it didn't use enough of this stuff and made the paragraphs seem rather monolithic and difficult to parse at a glance.
Many of the examples in the book are very practical; if you're looking for 100% super-fantasy, high end *examples*, you might be a tad disappointed. There are many cases from Big Buck Bunny and Elephant's Dream, but that's about as high-end as it goes. You WILL learn the tools to make high-end effects on your own though, so you'll just need a good eye for visualization. I was looking for the tools - I already have a background in visualization and design, so this book seems like it should be a good fit.
The length of the book is impressive. A lot of material was covered, and I was glad to see a great amount of background information on compositing and the film production arena in the beginning of the book. That should be fun to read.
Oh, and a warning about the DVD: My "mothership" compositing system runs Ubuntu 9.04. When I inserted the DVD, I got a "could not mount UDF volume" error. Crud. I re-tried a few times, and when I finally thought to try it with one of my Windows installs running in VirtualBox (I heard this would help with UDF problems), my drive would no longer eject. Wonderful.
After all that, I decided to restart the computer. I put the DVD in during the startup process, and bingo, when Ubuntu started, it was like there wasn't any problem in the first place. The DVD icon was on the desktop, and things were peachy. Hope that helps someone.
Thanks to the author for putting this great book together. It's like finding a drinking fountain in a desert.
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