books by Tim Wittenburg (morphing toolkit warping)

books by Tim Wittenburg

books:

Visual Special Effects Toolkit in C++

2 reviews
Tim Wittenburg

John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Very Helpful
I have been looking for a book on this subject that explains the technical details behind visual special effects. This book described techniques used to make special effects for Television and movies. The book describes techniques such as morphing photos, blending surfaces together smoothly and making complex scenes that contain many effects all at the same time.

Photo-Based 3d Graphics in C++: Compositing, Warping, Morphing and Other Digital Special Effects/Book and Disk

1 review
Tim Wittenburg

John Wiley & Sons, 1995

Dated and Confused
As a reference for programming image compositing tools, this book doesn't go deep enough, doesn't use industry-standard terminology, and is crammed with dated information. I should have first recognized that there would be a problem when I started reading about the time the author spent working with the "Windows 95 beta 3". Sure enough, the book was published in 1995, and contains quite a bit ...