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The Art of Deep Compositing
fxguide has been following the development and now wide scale adoption of deep comp.
Deep compositing doesn't combine together different objects; it keeps them stored separately along with their position. So it knows there's a tree five metres from camera as well as an explosion at two metres in front of it. This is handy because it allows elements to be rendered separately and combined correctly: a CG monster four metres from camera can be inserted between the explosion and the tree – a change to the explosion doesn't mean the monster has to be re-rendered. It also makes it easier and faster to composite volume elements such as clouds or smoke. Deep compositing makes for faster, more flexible, and less error-prone rendering of CG elements.
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Deep data is the standard way we do absolutely everything - I don't know how hot to turn off deep data in the pipeline.
Peter Hillman
Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan present Dr. Peter Hillman with a Technical Achievement Award for deep compositing
Colin Doncaster, Johannes Saam, Areito Echevarria, Janne Kontkanen and Chris Cooper accept their award at the SciTechs.
The Art of Deep Compositing
fxguide has been following the development and now wide scale adoption of deep comp.
To Colin Doncaster, Johannes Saam, Areito Echevarria, Janne Kontkanen and Chris Cooper for the development, prototyping and promotion of technologies and workflows for deep compositing. Their contributions include early advancements in key deep compositing features such as layer and holdout-order independence, spatial and intra-element color correction, post-render depth of field, and precise blending of complex layer edges.
Colin Doncaster, Johannes Saam, Areito Echevarria, Janne Kontkanen, Chris Cooper
To Dr. Peter Hillman for the long-term development and continued advancement of innovative, robust and complete toolsets for deep compositing. Dr. Hillman’s ongoing contributions to standardized techniques and a common deep image file format have enabled advanced compositing workflows across the digital filmmaking industry.
Dr. Peter Hillman