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Autodesk Smoke Essentials: Autodesk Official Press

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When I started pre-production on the movie that served as the inspiration for this book, I was, like you, vaguely familiar with Smoke and curious about what its integrated capabilities could bring to my workfl ow. And like you, I was new to its ways — just a raw recruit. Over the course of editing my fi lm and participating in its compositing (alongside vastly more experienced Smoke artists than myself), and within the span of three versions of the software, I was in a position to know which aspects of Smoke were easy to pick up and which would require more in-depth explanation. In essence, I was the very fi rst student of this book.

Autodesk has been making huge strides in making Smoke friendlier application than previous versions. It’s no secret that Smoke has a unique interface; reworking it for wider accessibility is a challenge in that the very power that Smoke brings to the post-production experience is what makes it more complex to learn. Fortunately, Autodesk has done a great job of moving the user interface forward in a way that enhances usability without sacrifi cing functionality.

This book distills my experiences editing and compositing my movie using Smoke, providing you with a fun series of real-world lessons that teach you this application’s many layers as an editor, a compositing environment, and a fi nishing tool that let you incorporate sophisticated effects at the very earliest stages of your edit. It also extends your workfl ow by adding high-quality greenscreen keying, 3D compositing, color correction, and text effects to help you complete even the most sophisticated of projects in one integrated application.

It’s often said, but truly I hope this book is as fun to read as it was to write.
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