Global

Instructor:
Matt LINDER
Formats: (Mac or PC only)
DVD-ROM
System Requirements


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.

Topcis Covered:

Digital Color Theory
Color Math
Layer Math
Log-to-Lin, Cineon Conversion
CGI Premultiply and Unpremultiply
Color Matching Exercises
Targeting Colors
Targeting Specific Areas
Keying for Color
Matching Shadow Values
Powerful Expressions for Color-X



Chapters:

01: Color Theory
02: Color Nodes 1
03: Color Nodes 2
04: Layer Nodes
05: Color Timing Excersises
06: Targeting Colors

Instructor:

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".