An important aspect of compositing with LightWave is that it enables you to expand your
creativity, especially if your system is not as fast as you??™d like it to be. Compositing in this
sense enables you to blend multiple images together. Of course, before you can complete
a composite in LightWave, you??™ll need to render! Later in this chapter, you??™ll learn about
the steps needed to render your composite animations for many types of applications, taking
what you learned in Chapter 15, ???Advanced Cameras and Rendering,??? a step further.
Production houses often have entire departments devoted to the task and thousands of
dollars invested in the software. From the optically composited spaceships of Star Wars
(the first three original films) to the digital, computer-generated people of The Matrix trilogy,
compositing has come a long way. Over the years, compositing technology has
evolved from purely optical techniques, such as matte paintings and frame-by-frame
painting, to completely digital methods, but compositing will always be an important part
of animation and visual effects. It is its own unique art and takes a lot of skill.
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