Integrating aesthetic, historical, and theoretical analyses of digital visual effects, Digital Visual Effects in Cinema is an essential guide for understanding movie-making today.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Beyond Spectacle
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Development of Computer Graphics
• Computer Graphics Meets Hollywood
• Spielberg's Dinosaurs
• Perceptual Realism
• Narrative and Spectacle
• The Eye as an Optical Instrument
• Viewing Pictorial Illusions
• Painting with Digital Light
• Optical Compositing
• Digital Compositing
• Digital Lighting
• Lighting Food in Ratatouille
• The Digital Intermediate
• Digital Image Capture
• New Visual Aesthetics
• Actors and Algorithms
• Acting and Animation
• Character Rigging
• Performance as a Composited Element
• Caricature and Photorealism
• The Uncanny Valley
• Composited Characters, Recombinant Performances
• Across the Valley
• Digital Environment Creation
• Limitations of the Photographic Model of Cinema
• Amalgamation and Synthesis
• Cinema as Painting
• From 2D to 3D
• The Digital Backlot
• Evolution of Backlot Filming
• Immersive Aesthetics
• Lossless Master Audio
• High Dynamic Range Imaging
• Stereoscopic Cinema
• Stereoscopy as an Enduring Element of Cinema
• 3D Digital Aesthetics
• Conclusion: The Pleasures of Illusion