Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.

 

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Pencil to Pixel

ASU

Generating computer images

n     Analog

n      Digital Image Making

 Standard Electronic Video Effects

n     Superimposition

n     Key

n     Chroma Key

n     Wipe

 

 Digital Effects

n       Digital image manipulation equipment

u   Electronic still store (SSS)

«  Grabbing a video frame and storing it

u   Frame store synchronizer

«  Allows for stabilizing and sychronizing two video sources so that they doin’t roll when switching from one to the other.

u   Desktop computers

«  Graphic generation 

    Need lots of storage space.

Common Digital video effects

n     Each pixel can be identified separately by the computer

u  Transforming analog to digital.

Synthetic image creation

n     Simple lettering to motion

n     CG material  (character generated material)

n     Graphic generation(painting and drawing software

Animation

n     Morphing (metamorphosis

 

Capturing material from the web

n     Copyright issues