Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects

Livingstone, Tom

Abstract

Today’s visual culture is full of hybrid images where live-action cinematography and computer-animation combine to create a single coherent image. Tackling digital effects such as colourisation and time ramping, compositing and photo-realistic rendering, this book explores how the growing use of post-photographic procedures shapes our relationship with the image and the world that the image represents. At stake is the ability to critically engage with the digital techniques that mediate perceptions of reality. Through a series of case studies the book connects the dominant techniques of hybridisation with emergent ways of being in our increasingly hybrid physical-digital world. Pointing at the relationship between mainstream visual culture and the manifold imperatives of digital technology and digital culture Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects highlights how a handful of digital visual effects are coming to shape the way we live.

• Book Type: Monograph
• Online Publication Date: Oct 31, 2024
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2024
• Deposit Date: Dec 17, 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9781399523301
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13533033
• Publisher URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hybrid-images-and-the-vanishing-point-of-digital-visual-effects.html