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“Matt
Linder is one of the smartest digital artists I've worked
with, excelling in many facets of production. Additionally, he
is the consummate teacher, clear, concise and enthusiastic, never
speaking above his audience.”
- Mark Freund
Visual Effects Supervisor
Pacific Title & Art Studio
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In this lecture, visual effects artist
Matt Linder demonstrates powerful color and layer techniques
and how to achieve photo-real imagery in Shake. He discusses
digital color theory, the basic math behind each color node,
as well as understanding premultiply and unpremultiply, bit
depth and Log-to-Lin conversions. Matt shares his tricks for
matching colors, targeting specific colors or areas for color,
keying for color or using color nodes for keying, and the all
powerful ColorX and LayerX nodes. Every color and layer node
is thoroughly discussed. The DVD includes color training exercises
and numerous production examples.
3 hours of lecture.
Product Code: MLI02
Digital Color Theory
Color Math
Layer Math
Log-to-Lin, Cineon Conversion
CGI Premultiply and Unpremultiply
Color Matching Exercises
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Targeting Colors
Targeting Specific Areas
Keying for Color
Matching Shadow Values
Powerful Expressions for Color-X
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01: Color Theory
02: Color Nodes 1
03: Color Nodes 2
04: Layer Nodes
05: Color Timing Excersises
06: Targeting Colors
Click here to
view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this
clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 1024x768 with
higher quality compression . View the stills to the right
to see the actual resolution.
Matt Linder has worked on over fifty feature films,
including Elektra, Garfield, X-Men 2, Daredevil, Ghost
Ship and Scooby Doo. Matt got his start at Kodak’s
Motion Picture Film division in Hollywood, where he learned all aspects
of motion picture film and cinematography. Later he joined Kodak’s
Cineon team where he contributed to the birth of digital compositing.
From there Matt went to Pacific Title and Art Studio as Lead Compositor
and Effects Artist for four years. Currently Matt works as a Lead Lighting
Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues, where he is sequence lighting
the film The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. When Matt is
not pushing pixels, he's pushing sound waves around LA with his music
projects "The Mood of Space" and "Nerve Picnic".
Visual Effects Compositing Fundamentals
Shake 101: Interface and Workflow
Shake: Expressions, Scripting and Macros
Shake: Effective Keying Techniques
Shake: Tracking and Transforms
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