Learn the fine art and craft of digital lighting and rendering from an experienced professional whose work you know from top films like Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles. Jeremy Birn combines his extensive industry and teaching experience in this fully updated edition, the standard work in the field of digital lighting and rendering.
Content and approach
With stunning full-color examples, an accessible and clear style, and various practical cases and tutorials, Jeremy shows how to apply strategic lighting in virtually any 3D project and with any 3D application. The focus is not only on the techniques, but also on the why behind them, so that professionals get the foundation to master Hollywood-quality lighting.
What will you learn?
- Identify and solve problems in your lighting for professional results.
- Break down scenes into passes and layers and convincingly integrate 3D models into real environments.
- Apply a linear workflow for more realistic light, global illumination, and compositing.
- Use advanced rendering techniques such as subsurface scattering, physically based light, caustics, and HDR images.
- Apply effective traditional tricks like adjusting shadow maps and GI fakes to save render time.
- Develop realistic materials and shaders and design and assign detailed texture maps.
- Mimic photographic lighting and cinematography techniques for lifelike results.
- Light characters and environments in various situations: day, night, indoors, outdoors, clear or atmospheric, underwater.
- Understand production processes in visual effects and animation studios and prepare for collaborating in large lighting teams.
- Discover the latest trends in the industry and get advice on creating a compelling lighting reel and finding work.
Additional features
You can download many of the 3D scenes used in this book to practice texturing, lighting, and compositing yourself.
Language and level
This learning material is suitable for Dutch and targets professionals and students who want to deepen their knowledge of digital lighting. The level is suitable for self-study and vocational education.
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