Book description
Talk about making an impact: Apple's Shake compositing and visual effects software has been used in every Academy Award-winning film for visual effects since its debut. It's no wonder that trained Shake artists are in high demand, and there's nowhere better to begin getting that training than with this fully updated (for Shake 4) and comprehensive Apple-approved guide (which includes a free 30-day trial version of this multi-thousand dollar software) Using step-by-step, hands-on instruction, Hollywood effects wizard Marco Paolini takes you through Shake's interface and features, including its color correction tools, tracking and stabilization capabilities, integrated procedural paint, powerful new floating point technology, advanced keyframing, blue and green screen techniques, rotoscoping tools, and more. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training series each chapter in this guide represents a complete lesson, with a project to complete, a review section, and bonus exercises to help test what you've learned. The accompanying DVD includes the lesson files needed to complete the book's projects. You can work through the book from cover to cover to get an entire course or you can go straight to the lessons that interest you most. Either way, you'll find the coverage you need to confront even the most daunting compositing and effects tasks with Shake.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Contents at a Glance
- Getting Started
- Chapter 1. The Shake Workflow
- Chapter 2. Basic Compositing
- Chapter 3. Intermediate Compositing
- Chapter 4. RotoShape
- Chapter 5. Color Correction
- Chapter 6. QuickPaint
- Chapter 7. Tracking
- Chapter 8. Film Compositing
- Chapter 9. Video/Audio
- Chapter 10. Keying
- Chapter 11. MultiPlane Compositing
- Chapter 12. Advanced Compositing
- Chapter 13. Warping
- Chapter 14. The Command Line
- Appendix: Final Cut Studio Workflows
- Glossary
- Index
- The Apple Pro Training Series
- Media
Product information
- Title: Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2005
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321256096
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