About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Special effect, Computer-generated imagery, Digital compositing, Sound effect, Stop motion, Split screen, Morphing, Miniature effect, Stunt, List of stop motion artists, Body painting, Fog machine, Primatte chromakey technology, Combat in film, Forced perspective, Digital intermediate, Bullet time, Lifecasting, Blood squirt, Prosthetic makeup, Dolly zoom, Motion control photography, Greeble, Motion picture film scanner, Rear projection effect, Kitbashing, Reverse motion, Surrender Dorothy, Haze machine, Visual effects, Photoanimation, Body double, Smallgantics, Slit-scan photography, Optical printer, Virtual cinematography, Bouncing ball, Introvision, Projection poi, Schufftan process, Theatrical blood, Fxguide, Perlin noise, Freya Blackwood, Ski, List of films made with Autodesk 3ds Max, Graphics coordinator, Special Effects: Anything Can Happen, Toner bomb, Praxis effect, Special effects supervisor, Aerial rigging, Human image synthesis, 5-in-1 blank cartridge, Stereographer, Suitmation, Sugar glass, In-camera effect, Digital video effect, CineMagic, Hanging miniature, Practical effect, Secondary animation, Worley noise, Reverse bluescreen, Physical effects, Wire-flying, Kirby wire, Monster cam, The Lottery, Breakaway vase. Excerpt: A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre, or cinema. Stunts are a big part of many action movies. Before computer generated imagery special effects, these effects were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, unless the creator could find someone willing to jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper: the stunt performer or stunt double. One of the most-frequently used practical stunts is stage combat. Although contact is normally avoided, ma...
