Review: The Art and Science of Digital Compositing

If I had to name one book as a cornerstone for my compositing studies that would be without any doubt The Art and Science of Digital Compositing.

With almost seven hundred pages of illustrated knowledge and some of the most well-known feature studio's projects discuss in detail, this book is the best start and go-to tool to learn and understand what good compositing is about.

Written by Ron Brinkmann, one of the founding employees of Sony Pictures Imageworks, visual effects/animator supervisor on a variety of big-budget projects, product designer for Shake and advisor to The Foundry on their compositing software Nuke,  this book walks you throug the A to Z of digital compositing.

For someone like me, who didn't have any previous knowledge of digital compositing, was in some parts quite complex but not to the point of discouraging.

It's quite dense and has many examples, printed as well as on an accompanying DVD, giving a complete overview of the technical and artistic aspects of digital compositing. 

I'm sure there are many books out there about this topic, but I highly recommend buying this book for anyone wanting to get serious about digital compositing.

Here's the first chapter of this book, in case you're interested:

First chapter PDF 

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