The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects provides a practical, detailed guide to visual effects for non-VFX specialists working in film and television. In contemporary film and television production, visual effects are extensively used across a variety of genres and formats to contribute to visual storytelling, manage production constraints, and reduce costs. However, visual effects often remain a misunderstood aspect of media production for many directors, producers, editors, and cinematographers.

In this book, award-winning VFX supervisor and educator Eran Dinur introduces readers to the world of visual effects from the filmmaker's perspective, offering a comprehensive guide to the conception, design, budgeting, planning, shooting, and reviewing of VFX, from pre-production to post-production.

The book helps readers:

• Learn what is required for editors, cinematographers, directors, producers, lighting technicians, and other filmmakers to collaborate more effectively with the visual effects team during pre-production, on set, and in post-production.
• Utilize visual effects as a storytelling tool.
• Reduce production costs and solve on-set issues.
• Gain a deeper understanding of 3D, 2D, and 2.5D workflows; the various VFX crafts from matchmove to compositing; and grasp fundamental concepts such as photorealism, parallax, rotoscoping, and extraction.
• Familiarize themselves with traditional VFX workflows as well as virtual production, and learn how to effectively plan for the costs and complexity of VFX shots.
• See how concepts of visual effects come to life through practical, richly illustrated examples from the real experiences of industry professionals, and discover how to better integrate visual effects into their own projects.