CPSC 815 Special Effects Production
Fall 2002
Project 1

Objectives:
To learn simple compositing operations within an image manipulation package (e.g., Gimp or Photoshop).

Motivation:
This project examines issues involved in compositing two (or more) still images.

Due dates:
Project web page: 09/24/02

Description:
Use an image manipulation package (Gimp or Photoshop) to composite two scenes:

Notes, suggestions, and additional requirements:

What to hand in:
``Professional-quality'' brief writeup, including:
  1. Cover page containing:
    Course Id--Section No.
    Name:
    Assignment No.
  2. Assignment description
  3. ``Visual chronology'' of the piece, including:
    • idea drawings (e.g., storyboards for the composition of the final shot),
    • principal photography (e.g., the ``raw images'', with props, stage, blue screen background, etc.),
    • matte images generated for the composite (along with descriptions of any operations employed to ``clean up'' the mattes, e.g., smoothing to soften matte edges),
    • the final image.

Electronic submission of images: provide a URL (web address) to your on-line presentation of the assignment. To keep the page size manageable, please use reduced images on your web page, but provide links to the full-scale images.