visual effects
Post-production image manipulation
Visual effects are imagery created or manipulated through digital or optical techniques rather than captured directly by a camera.
The term covers everything from computer-generated creatures to digitally extended sets to composited explosions.
In film credits, visual effects (often abbreviated VFX) distinguishes post-production digital work from practical effects done on set: The visual effects team spent months rendering the dragon.
- CGIDigital movie imagery
- green screenSolid backdrop for compositing
- blue screenFatal system error display
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
- compositingCombining visual elements digitally
matte painting · cinematography · editing · bullet time · Houdini · Maya · rigid body dynamics · fluid dynamics · forced perspective · layering · color grading · masking · rotoscoping · Blender · motion capture · rigging · modeling · texturing
- show businessactors, actresses, directors, producers, entertainers
- film jobsdirector, actor, actress, producer, cinematographer
- spectacle cinemaaction movies, disaster films, superhero films, war epics, monster movies
- entertainment designset design, costume design, lighting design, sound design, scenic design
- filmmovies, film, filmmaking, cinematography, film editing
- visual mediafilm, video, drawing, photograph, television
visual effectspractical effects
Non-digital film techniques
miniatures · animatronics · pyrotechnics · matte paintings · wirework
visual effectssound effects
Artificial noises for media
sound design · Foley · dialogue · score · sound mixing
visual effectsraw footage
Unprocessed recorded material
documentary footage · cinéma vérité · location shooting · natural lighting · realism
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