Information technology project

TOPIC : VISUAL EFFECTS

(VFX)

Presented by purushottam kumar tiwari of

Class X “B”
Roll no. 47
Presented to : Rahul Mittra Sir
 Contents:
What is VFX
Computer Generated Imagery- CGI
Rotoscoping
Compositing
Matte Painting
Rigging
Motion Capturing
Chromo Keying
Why use only green and blue color
Various VFX software
 VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
 Visual effects are the various processes by which imagery is
created and /or manipulated outside the context of a live action
shot.
 Visual effects involve the integration of life action footage and
generated imaginary to create environments which looks
realistic which is impossible to capture on film.
 Visual effects using computer generated imagery has recently
become accessible to the independent filmmaker with the
introduction of affordable and user friendly animation and
compositing software
 Visual effects can be categorize into:
• Rotoscoping
• Compositing
• Matte painting
• Rigging
• Motion capturing
 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY (CGI)

 It is the application of computer graphics to

create images in art, print media, video games,
films, television programs, commercial and
simulators.
 The visual scenes maybe dynamic or static and
may be two dimensional (2D) ,through the term
of CGI is the most commonly used to referred to
3D computer graphics used for creating scenes
or special effects in films and television.
 Computer graphics software is used to make
computer generated imagery for films,
professional - grade films, games and fine art
from their home computers.
 ROTOSCOPING
 Rotoscoping is an animation technique in
which animators trace over live-action film
movement, frame by frame, for use in
animated films.
 Originally, pre-recorded live-action film
images were projected onto a frosted glass
panel and re-drawn by an animator.
 This projection equipment is called a
rotoscope, although this device has been
replaced by computers in recent years. In
the visual effects industry, the term
rotoscoping refers to the technique of
manually creating a matte for an element
on a live-action plate so it may be
composited over another background.
 COMPOSITING
It is the combining of visual elements from
separate sources into single image often to
create the illusion that all those elements are
parts of the same scene.
Composting is taking real- life elements with
computer generated (CG) elements and
putting them together.so this same like they
were shot together.
 Life- action shooting for compositing is
variously called "Chroma key" ,"blue
screen", "green screen" and other names.
Today, most ,though not all, compositing is
achieved through digital image manipulation.
 MATTE PAINTING
A matte painting is a painted representation
of a landscape, set, or distant location that
allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an
environment that is nonexistent in real life or
would otherwise be too expensive or
impossible to build or visit.
Historically, matte painters and film
technicians have used various techniques to
combine a matte-painted image with live-
action footage. At its best, depending on the
skill levels of the artists and technicians, the
effect is "seamless" and creates environments
that would otherwise be impossible to film.
In the scenes the painting part is static and
movements are integrated on it.
 RIGGING
Skeletal animation is a technique in
computer animation in which a character is
represented in two parts: a surface
representation used to draw the character
(called skin or mesh) and a hierarchical set of
interconnected bones (called the skeleton or
rig) used to animate the mesh. While this
technique is often used to animate humans or
more generally for organic modeling.
This technique is used in virtually all
animation systems where simplified user
interfaces allows animators to control often
complex algorithms .However, the intention
of the technique is never to imitate real
anatomy or physical processes, but only to
control the deformation of the mesh data.
 MOTION CAPTURING
Motion capture (MOCAP) is an effective 3D
animation tool for realistically capturing
human motion.
In cinematography, match moving is a
cinematic technique that allows the insertion
of computer graphics into live-action footage
with correct position, scale, orientation, and
motion relative to the photographed objects
in the shot.
The term is used loosely to describe several
different methods of extracting camera
motion information from a motion picture.
Sometimes referred to as motion tracking or
camera solving, match moving is related to
rotoscoping and photogrammetry.
 CHROMO KEYING
Chroma keying is a technique used for
combining to friends or images by
replacing a color.
It is often used in film industry to
replace a since that round by using a
blue or green screen as the initial
background and placing the actor in the
foreground.
Chroma key is also known as color
keying and color separation overlay; it is
also commonly called blue screen or
green screen.
WHY USE ONLY GREEN AND BLUE COLOR
 Key tool works with other colors, but blue and
green work the best because the digital images use
red, green and blue channels to make up the
image red is not very good because after skin tons
often have a lot of red.
 In the composting software ( such as a dog after
effect the foundry UK and many others), there is
a tool call "key". what this does is tells the
computer all the pixel that is this kind of green or
blue should be treated as transparent.
 The king tool will find all the pixels that is the
same kind of green and then treat those pixels as
transparent.
SOFTWARE USED IN VFX ARE:

Autodesk max Dx Studio

Autodesk Maya Gelato
After effects Light wave 3D
Nuke Micro station
Blender Real Flow
Mocha V-Ray
Cinema 4D Wings 3D
Cloud Yafray
City Engine ETC