New Book for Animators / Digital Artists

I figure there are a few animators and/or digital artists out there on Tiki Central, so I wanted to mention the release of my latest book, "Professional Digital Compositing." Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Fix-Post-Digital-Compositing-Right/dp/0470452617/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244686545&sr=8-2

TOO COOL!

I used to be an animation student (until I switched majors to Web Design & Interactive Media), but I'm still doing the animation as a hobby.

Thanks for postin a link to yer book, I'll be sure to grab a copy :D

That girl on the cover has big boobs.

I believe they're animated.

"animated", is that the new word for silcone?

Oh, you guys...

I decided to hire a model and forgo the standard author trick of including pictures of his/herself or his/her students in the book. Then again, all my books feature cute women on the cover (search Amazon if you want to see)...

Thanks Lee, I've added this to my list of books to buy for 2010.

Does this book cover PROPER green/blue screen lighting or do you know of a resource that does the subject justice?

There are a lot of contradictory opinions on the subject and more general blather based on how someone was taught versus knowing precisely why something is done or not.. I've gradually moved to lighting my backdrop 1 to 1 1/2 stops below that of my subject as measured by an incident meter since both waveform monitors and reflectance meters are color biased to varying degrees depending on their manufacturer and don't provide accurate readings for a camera pointed at the screen. This seems to work out okay, but I'd like a scientific application of lighting to optimize keying possibilities. Maximum color saturation should occur at 50% brightness (55 IRE) but does it? If I expose the screen for middle gray everything else should fall into place right? Wish I knew for sure.

Feel free to move this to PM and then email so as not to have a wildly non-tiki thread.

[Just to keep this post TC relevant, Jimmy Buffet sucks at creating core mattes!)

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