Chapter 8. Create a Snail

One of the nicest things that the computer graphics scientists have achieved is the possibility of mixing computer generated images with live footage. For this to be possible, there are a lot of aspects that must be correctly controlled and some quite sophisticated shading methods that must be used. Let's now work on creating a small snail and composite it over an empty leaf in real footage to get a good grasp of how complex a project of this kind can be.