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Illustration: Compositing Techniques

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Overview

Achieve more complex results in your illustrations with digital compositing. Learn how to merge visual components like light, color, and reflections into a final illustration.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Introduction to Compositing
  • Composing light sources
  • Composing color
  • Composing highlights
2. Illustrating the Composite Layers
  • Preliminary drawing
  • Creating mask layers
  • Using the mask layers
  • Painting the ambient light
  • Adjusting the ambient light
  • Painting the sunlight, part 1: Head
  • Painting the sunlight, part 2: Body
  • Painting the sunlight, part 3: Background
  • Adjusting the sunlight
  • Introducing color
  • Rendering the figure
  • Rendering the sky
3. Finishing Touches and Variations
  • Adding bounce light
  • Adding specular highlights
  • Compositing variations
Conclusion
  • Farewell to the audience

Taught by

Daniel Lieske

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