Enter the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without requiring a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of pictures movies, pictures, illustrations and diagrams to help readers gain a valuable visual vocabulary and understanding of the various visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing you get a solid overview of the types of digital effects routinely executed today. After that, you learn each of the key applications of digital compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet time shots, motion tracking, and rotoscoping, and you get a primer on digital images, key concepts and terms used in the compositing process. This includes many ways to composite CGI, bluescreen compositing, animation, creating masks, working with digital keyers, and many more, but most importantly, digital art compositing-make your picture look not just photorealistic, but cool. Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect when working on jobs that require digital compositing.