9 VFX Terms You Should Know

Visual Effects terminology can be very confusing, so here are 9 terms every VFX artist should know!

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[gradedraw]

For people who are busy and don't have time to watch the whole video and just want to know the terms and see if you know them or not before watching the video :

1. Compositing
2. Keying
3. Rotoscoping
4. Paint outs/removals
5. Matte Paintings
6. Day for Night
7. Assets
8. CGI
9. Passes

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I would like to see an episode about the day-to-night topic.

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[stephengentryvfx]

"the time given to complete that shot". It's always this one. It's a rare person I work with that truly understands how long this stuff can take.

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[valtabohm]

This just made me love MUCH more the Vfx Career. I'm trying to get into it mostly with mate paintings and compositing :) Thanks for this awesome video man

[egodreas]

As a VFX professional, I appreciate having somewhere to send curious friends and family members who want to learn a little bit more about what I do for a living. My only point of contention would be how you use the word "assets". That word has a very specific meaning at VFX houses where proper digital asset management is necessary to produce shows on a bigger scale. In that context, every image sequence, 3d model or compositing script is an "asset" stored in your production database, carefully tracked and managed by your production tracking system (such as Shotgun or FTrack). Instead, we usually refer to the type of footage you are talking about as "elements". Different companies might use slight variations, such as "2d element", "library element" or "stock element", but it's usually something along those lines. It's perhaps not a universally adopted term, and the word "element" on its own can indeed be used in a wider sense to refer to any plate, render, or even matte painting, used in a comp. But when a supervisor asks a comper to look for suitable elements, there is generally no confusion as to what they mean.

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Great video. Shoutout to all the filmmakers out there. 🤙🏾

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