Fxguide's 'Art of' Tracking, Keying, Roto, Optical Flow, HDR, 3D Stereo, & more

Fxguide's 'Art of' series is still pretty good. Here's what's easily found in the series:

• The Art of Tracking
• The Art of Keying
• The Art of Roto
• The Art of Wire Removal
• The Art of Optical Flow
• The Art of HDR
• The Art of Digital 3D Stereoscopic Film
• Matte Painting: 1, 2, 3, 4

Covering some of the same ground is "classic" VFX training resurrected for now on Vimeo, the out-of-print Masters of Visual Effects.

HDR Time-Lapse movies

Via PrepShootPost and KGO-TV/SF are HDR time-lapse movies made by TimeTraveler. Chad Richard of TimeTraveler has even posted his DSLR-based work flow as well as his experiments:


Twin Peaks San Francisco Sunrise from Chad Richard on Vimeo.

Also, TimeTraveler notes a cool blog called Abducted By Design that features various inspirations, like Motion Experiments from Norway's Klipp og Lim:

MacVideo, NAB, HDR master

Picking among the scraps...

- MacVideo.tv has a hefty number of informative videos, including recent ones from NAB.
- fxguide has podcasts and fxguideTV from NAB
- Google talk from the Grandmaster of HDRI, Paul Debevec:

FXGuideTV @ SIGGRAPH

FXGuideTV and Animation World Network has daily web video of SIGGRAPH 2007, including a look at the Emerging Technologies exhibit and a conversation with HDR guru Paul Debevec. The Photoshop object extraction/matte technique in fxguidetv #004 might be worth your look too.

new HDR book

High Dynamic Range Imaging, First Edition : Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting

If you want to dig deep, this book is a landmark from the pioneers of HDRI; but you've have to think like an imaging scientist, FX wizard, or Photoshop engineer!