VFX History
The process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live action shot in filmmaking and video production.
What is VFX?
A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.
What is a storyboard?
The container that holds you project—all your photos, videos, and layers exist inside this powerful organizing structure.
What is a composition?
A newspaper cartoonist and technical illustrator who worked in New York in the early 1900s and is considered the father of rotoscoping.
Who is Max Fleischer?
Technical process that fixes color issues and makes footage appear natural and unprocessed—the way the human eye experiences it in real life.
What is color correction?
The first feature film created entirely in CG
What is Toy Story?
Artists in charge of piecing combining assets together
What is a compositor?
Markers that define the start and end points for an animation.
What is a keyframe?
The rotoscope machine was awarded with a patent in
When is 1917?
The ratio between the lightest pixels and darkest pixels in a shot
What is contrast?
The Man with the Rubber Head, is a 1901 French short silent film.
Who is Georges Méliès?
The process of recording patterns of movement digitally for the purpose of animating a digital character.
What is motion capture?
Use this tool to create the initial matte to separate an object from its background.
What is the pen tool?
Disney's first fully rotoscoped animated feature film hit theaters in 1934.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
Variations in the value and intensity of one color
What is monochromatic color?
The infamous stop-motion skeleton battle scene in Jason and the Argonauts took place in this year
A painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.
What is a matte painting?
The condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness.
What is opacity?
A black and white image that can be used to “cut a hole” in another image.
What is a matte?
The use of colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel
What are complementary colors?
The world's first "special effect" was created in 1857 and combined different sections of 32 negatives into a single image.
Who is Oscar Rejlander?
This usually involves adding bones, calculating and implementing skin weights, and adding muscles to replicate the natural movement of a character.
What is rigging?
A composition that is included as a layer in another composition.
A series of key points connected by a line or a curve.
What is a spline?
Three equally spaced out colors on the color wheel. One color is the dominant, and the remaining two are complementary colors.
What are triadic colors?