Digital Compositing

Course aim

To familiarise students with professional practice and industry standards in digital compositing for film.

Course content

Digital Compositing familiarises students with the visual effects industry and production pipeline, and provides the theory, skills and techniques to produce industry-standard composited film sequences. During the lecture series, students will develop an understanding of key compositing techniques and practices. Students will also engage with local industry leaders to further their understanding of professional practice in the visual effects industry. During the practical series, students will develop advanced skills in industry standard digital compositing programs, including colour correction, rotoscoping, keying and tracking. The assessment tasks will provide students with the opportunity to work both individually and in small teams; and produce a personalised showreel of industry-standard work.

Textbook(s)

Ganbar, R 2011, Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
COMM 1067	Introduction to CGI

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Lecture	1 hr x 10 weeks
Lecture (online)	1 hour x 2 weeks
Computer Practical	2 hrs x 10 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Lecture)	1 hr x 12 weeks
External (Computer Practical)	2 hrs x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Basic Composite, Complex composite, Showreel

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.