INTRODUCTION

We confess to having a certain Hollywood-centered bias. That’s only natural, because both authors spent a span of 20 years working in the visual effects community. We were lucky to get our experience in Southern California which has the largest concentration of visual effects facilities in the world. Not only are several of the largest digital effects houses located here, but this region also is home to literally scores of prominent and not-so-prominent medium and smaller facilities that service the motion picture, TV, commercial, music video, and gaming industries.

Hollywood may have dominated the field for decades, but no longer. In the last few years the creation of visual effects has become an international growth industry. Technical ...

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