That is the
core of success for most Hollywood production studios.
Indeed, the enormous importance of compositing has led to the development of many
high-powered, complex, and expensive programs dedicated to the task. But LightWave
comes with its own, rather extensive set of tools, both for compositing within the program
and for exporting images to be composited in other software packages.
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Compositing Basics: Background and
Foreground Images
Compositing can be an extraordinarily complicated process, combining hundreds of separate
2D and 3D elements into one final image. However, many times, it??™s just as simple as
placing a 3D object against a background image. A background image, or background plate,
as it is commonly called, is a 2D image. It is usually a digitized photograph or sequence of
film, though not necessarily; sometimes, other rendered 3D footage is used as the background
image. A 3D object is placed against
the background image to make it appear as
though the 3D object was always a part of the
background. An example of this is the creatures
in Jurassic Park III.
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