Compositing and Special Effects

Here is a step by step over view of compositing projects.

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Compositing is used to add CG components into either CG backgrounds and environments or real life back grounds or environments. A good starting point to understanding this would be to look at a photo which a CG character can be added into. The character will need to be lighted in Maya or another modeling animation software to match the photo. If the light and rendering of the CG character are done correctly the composited photo with the CG character added into it will be seamless. This same system can be used with CG animations and film footage, which is basically how most of the Star Wars movies were shot.
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