Visual Special Effects Toolkit in C++

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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: 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.

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Summary: Mediocre
Review: The book includes good information. However, you will feel inclined to dig deep into the source code included on the CD to find it. It is a suitable book for those who do not like to know how to program their own effects, but rather use the included Image Compositing Toolkit to generate the effects. It does talk about commercials, but it is not code-related discussions. However, good books are hard to find, especially those with formulas and code that comes along with each example, so if you do not require such a book, but something which included a ICT that you will have to build yourself in visual C++, then this book might be for you. Like said, I did not find any source code I wanted to dwell into. I'm too short on time to look in the source code of the ICT project.