Digital Lighting and Rendering

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birn, Jeremy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics--Computer simulation.

Computer graphics.

Light.

Three-dimensional display systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) : ill.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Digital lighting and rendering

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Pearson Education 2013

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Learn the fine art and craft of digital lighting and rendering from an experienced pro whose lighting work you’ve seen in blockbuster films such as Monsters University, Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles. Jeremy Birn draws on his wealth of industry and teaching experience to provide a thoroughly updated edition of what has become the standard guide to digital lighting and rendering. Using beautiful, full-color examples; a friendly, clear teaching style; and a slew of case studies and tutorials, Jeremy demonstrates how to create strategic lighting for just about any project using any 3D application. By explaining not just how to use various lighting techniques but why, this guide provides the grounding graphics pros need to master Hollywood lighting techniques. Learn how to pinpoint problems with your lighting and solve them to produce professional results. Break scenes into passes and layers, and convincingly composite 3D models into real-world environments. Adopt a linear workflow for more convincing lighting, global illumination, and compositing. Apply advanced rendering techniques using subsurface scattering, physically based lighting, caustics, and high dynamic range images. Build a bigger bag of tricks by learning “old-school” approaches such as tweaking shadow maps, faking GI with occlusion passes, and other cheats and tricks that save render time. Develop realistic materials and shaders, and design and assign detailed texture maps to your models. Mimic photographic exposure and cinematography techniques to simulate real-life f-stops, lens breathing, bokeh effects, and Kelvin color temperatures for more photorealistic renderings. Learn to light characters and environments in different situations: day or night; natural or artificial lights; indoors or outdoors; and in clear air, thick atmosphere, or under water. Understand production pipelines at visual effects and animation studios, and prepare for collaborative work on large lighting teams Get the latest insights into industry trends, and how to develop your lighting reel and get a job in an increasingly competitive industry. Download many of the 3D scenes used in this book from the author’s website to try texturing, lighting, and compositing on your own

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book?

Software Requirements

About This Edition

Download Additional Files

[Chapter One] Fundamentals of Lighting Design

Motivation

Cheating

Visual Goals of Lighting Design

Lighting Challenges

Your Workspace

Creative Control

[Chapter Two] Lighting Basics and Good Practices

Starting the Creative Process

Types of Lights

Adjusting Controls and Options

Exercises

[Chapter Three] Shadows and Occlusion

The Visual Functions of Shadows

The Appearance of Shadows

Shadow Algorithms

Occlusion

Faking Shadows and Occlusion

[Chapter Four] Lighting Environments and Architecture

Creating Daylight

Working with Indoor Natural Light

Practical Lights

Night Scenes

Distance and Depth

[Chapter Five] Lighting Creatures, Characters, and Animation

Modeling with Light

Three-Point Lighting

Functions of Lights

Issues in Lighting Character Animation

[Chapter Six] Cameras and Exposure

F-Stops and Depth of Field

Shutter Speed and Motion Blur

Film Speed and Film Grain

Photographic Exposure

Matching Lens Imperfections

[Chapter Seven] Composition and Staging

Types of Shot

Camera Angles

Improving Your Composition

Framing for Film and Video

[Chapter Eight] The Art and Science of Color

Working in a Linear Workflow

Color Mixing

Developing Color Schemes

Using Color Balance

Working with Digital Color

[Chapter Nine] Shaders and Rendering Algorithms

Shading Surfaces

Anti-Aliasing

Raytracing

Reyes Algorithms

Global Illumination

Caustics

[Chapter Ten] Designing and Assigning Textures

Mapping Surface Attributes.

Aligning Maps with Models

Creating Texture Maps

Using Procedural Textures

[Chapter Eleven] Rendering in Layers and Passes for Compositing

Rendering in Layers

Rendering in Passes

Matching Live-Action Background Plates

Managing Colors in Your Composite

Choosing Your Approach

[Chapter Twelve] Production Pipelines and Professional Practices

Production Pipelines

Lighting on Larger Productions

Advancing in Your Career

Appendix: Getting a Job in 3D Graphics

A Lighting Showreel

Do I Need to Specialize?

Technical Directors

Internal Promotion

Job Security

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780133439199

0133439194

9780133439175

0133439178

9780321928986

0321928989

OCLC:

869479044