VFX Like a Director: Directing Visual Effects, Compositing, and Digital Spectacle in AI-Generated Video - Couverture souple

GUPTA, ADITYA

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798176123883

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

In 1993, a single VFX shot could cost $50,000 per second. Today, anyone with a laptop can generate one in under two minutes — for less than the price of a coffee.

That didn't kill visual effects. It killed the gatekeepers. What's left is judgment — and judgment, unlike a budget, can be trained.

VFX Like a Director is not a software tutorial. It won't teach you which button to click in Runway, Kling, or Pika — those tools change every month, and this book will outlive all of them. Instead, it teaches the one skill that never goes out of date: how to think like a director when you generate a shot, not just a prompt engineer hoping for a lucky roll.

Across sixteen chapters, you'll learn to:

• Decide when a scene needs VFX at all — and when restraint tells the story better
• Route any shot to the right tool category in seconds, without chasing every new release
• Build atmosphere, destruction, and impossible physics that actually serve the story
• Composite AI-generated elements into real footage so they don't look pasted on
• Handle digital doubles and face work responsibly — where craft and ethics are the same subject
• Keep continuity and color unified across dozens of shots, not just one
• Diagnose the uncanny valley instead of endlessly regenerating and hoping
• Build a repeatable pipeline, price your work fairly, and develop a directing style that's unmistakably yours

Every chapter follows the same field-tested structure: the problem, the framework, a real shot that failed and then worked, a step-by-step process, the three mistakes everyone makes, and one habit to take with you. The book closes with a Director's Field Reference mapping every framework to its chapter, and a Shot Autopsy Log you can start using today.

The tools generate. You direct.

This book teaches you how.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798176123883
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 102
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