companies in the area.
Categories
Visual effects may be divided into at least four categories:
Models: miniature sets and models, animatronics. Matte paintings and stills: digital or traditional paintings or photographs which serve as background plates for keyed or rot scoped elements. Live-action effects: keying actors or models through blue screening and green screening. Digital animation: modeling, computer graphics lighting, texturing, rigging, animating, and rendering computer-generated 3D characters, particle effects, digital sets, backgrounds.
Visual Effects Software
Adobe After Effects Apple Motion Apple Shake Autodesk Combustion Eyeon Fusion The Foundry Nuke
Career in Visual Effects
There are a number of ways to begin a career in visual effects, along with a growing market