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DPA 8150: Visual Effects & Compositing

This interdisciplinary class is focused on manipulating digitally represented still and moving images for photorealistic visual effects. Topics include history, visual properties, cinematography, image representation, image manipulation, compositing theory, match-moving, lighting, rendering, color grading, planning, workflow, and other topics such as real-time compositing, matte-painting, deep compositing, and stereography as time allows. Students learn and apply conceptual and practical material in both technical and aesthetic projects related to visual-effects production.