What Are Visual Effects And Their Importance In Filmmaking?

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What Are Visual Effects And Their Importance In
Filmmaking?
Jason Lei Howden
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Visual effects, or VFX for short, allow
filmmakers to improve a story by bringing
credible and realistic characters, stunts, and
worlds to life.  Visual effects enable filmmakers
to make an enchanting imaginary world and obtain
stunts that would be impossible to film in the
real world. However, visual effects are not
exclusive to blockbuster movies. Filmmakers also
utilize subtle visual effects in more grounded
movies to tell the stories more efficiently. 
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What Are Visual Effects 
In filmmaking, VFX is the manipulation or
creation of on-screen imagery which doesnt
physically exist in real life. This enables
moviemakers to make objects, environments,
creatures, and people who would otherwise be
impossible or impractical to film in the context
of a live-action shot. Visual effects in the
movie often involve the integration of
live-action footage with CGI or
computer-generated imagery. 
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VFX vs. SFX
The term visual effect isnt interchangeable with
the term special effects. Unlike visual effects,
special effects are obtained in real-time during
filming examples take account fake rain,
pyrotechnics, animatronics, and prosthetic
makeup. All visual effects are integrated after
shooting in post-production. 
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• Computer Generated Imagery 

3 Kinds of Visual Effects
Also called CGI, this umbrella term is utilized
to illustrate digitally made visual effects in TV
and movie. This can be 2D or 3D, but this is
referenced if talking about 3D visual effects. 3D
modeling is the most discussed process in CGI-
the making of a 3D representation of any object,
living creature, and surface.
Top visual effects studios are staffed with
visual effects supervisors and teams of
professional visual effect artists who all have
their skills and specialties. Here are the
categories of visual effects. 

• Compositing

Popularly known as chroma keying, this is when a
visual effect artist such as Jason Lei Howden
combines visual elements from separate origins in
order to make it look as though theyre in a
similar place.

• Motion Capture

This is the process of recording the movement of
the actor digitally and then transferring the
movement to a CGI 3D model. This process includes
recording facial expressions. 
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