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Steve Witt · February 21st, 2005, 08:37 PM

anyone know any good books on special effects that include
forced perspectives, blue/green screen use, etc. thanks, steve

Rob Lohman · February 23rd, 2005, 03:54 AM

Are you talking about general talk or specific on how to do these
effects? Usually the books on the latter subject are written for
a specific program like After Effects or Combustion etc.

The trick to blue and greenscreen is (even) lighting and seperating
the foreground from the background. Do a search on DVi here with
on words like blue and green and you should find some threads
that discuss that in more depth.

If you are looking for general information a magazine called
Cinefex is a well known mag that discusses special effects movies
and how they did those effects for big-budget movies.

February 21st, 2005, 08:37 PM	#1
Steve Witt Major Player Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: kentucky, USA Posts: 429	books on special effects? anyone know any good books on special effects that include forced perspectives, blue/green screen use, etc. thanks, steve

February 23rd, 2005, 03:54 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	Are you talking about general talk or specific on how to do these effects? Usually the books on the latter subject are written for a specific program like After Effects or Combustion etc. The trick to blue and greenscreen is (even) lighting and seperating the foreground from the background. Do a search on DVi here with on words like blue and green and you should find some threads that discuss that in more depth. If you are looking for general information a magazine called Cinefex is a well known mag that discusses special effects movies and how they did those effects for big-budget movies. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors