Discreet Combustion2.0 Film and Visual Effects Master

Author: Li Tao
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronic Press
Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Combustion is a professional video effects compositing software developed by the renowned Discreet company for PC and MAC platforms. It inherits many excellent features of Discreet's high-end effects compositing software on the SGI platform, driving video effects production on PC and MAC with a user-friendly interface, powerful compositing tools, and rich visual effects. This book comprehensively introduces the powerful functions of Combustion 2.0. The entire book consists of 13 lessons, covering all aspects of Combustion's practical applications, including an overview, window commands, 2D and 3D compositing functions, mask usage methods, advanced animation control, drawing functions, color correction and key setting methods, effects applications, tracking and stabilization, integration with 3ds Max, and output knowledge.
To ensure readers can learn thoroughly, each lesson includes foundational knowledge accompanied by vivid, diverse, and easy-to-understand examples and carefully designed thought questions, with hands-on practice. These examples, along with detailed production processes and concise illustrations, will help every reader become an excellent master of Combustion. The appendix provides a comprehensive list of Combustion shortcuts, significantly improving operational efficiency. Additionally, readers can find satisfactory answers to doubts and difficulties encountered during learning in the thought question solutions at the end of the book.
This book is rich in content, accurate in description, concise in language, and well-structured. The 32 exciting examples in the book fully illustrate the usage methods and techniques of Combustion 2.0, making learning effortless and easy to grasp. It is suitable not only for beginners and intermediate users but also as a supplementary textbook for computer majors in higher art institutions and as teaching material for social video effects training classes. The accompanying CD for this edition provides example files and the final composite effects.