Foundation Blender Compositing [With DVD]

Anyone who uses Blender needs this book. Blender users know that it can be used for modeling, animation, and rendering, but it can also be used as a fully functional compositing and post-production application. This book explores Blender's use as a compositing and post-production tool in the video and film production pipeline. In this book, you will learn how to:

• Create and apply masks and special effects in Blender
• Composite images using Blender's node-based compositor
• Sequence and overlay video and audio using Blender's non-linear editor

Author: Roger Wickes
Publisher: Apress
Published: 08/07/2009
Pages: 470
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 8.86h x 7.48w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781430219767

About the Author
Roger Wickes is a producer, project manager, and intellectual property portfolio manager for commercials, pre-visualizations, games, training materials, and other assets of the creative enterprise. He has authored large parts of the Blender on-line wiki documentation for compositing nodes, animation, and video sequence editing, has used Blender for more than ten years, and is an active member of the community. He has managed over a hundred software professionals and consulted for Fortune 100 companies on various aspects of software development and business process, and his company produced some of the first Internet-based business software.