The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Visualization and Games: For Visual Effects, Visualization and Games

ISBN-13: 9780367199265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Eran Dinur

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product visualization, and games.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Core Concepts 1. Reality and Photorealism 2. Photorealism in Digital Media 3. Color Part 2: The Real World 4. Light essentials 5. Light interaction 6. Daylight 7. Nighttime and Artificial Lighting 8. Shadows 9. Basic Material Properties 10. Lens and Camera Characteristics Part 3: The CG World 11. Rendering and Lighting 12. Shading 13. Texturing 14. Modeling Part 4: The 2D World 15. Integrating 2D Elements 16. Integrating CG elements 17. Lighting in 2D 18. Lens and Camera Effects 19. Epilogue: The Future 20. Appendix A: Glossary of Abbreviations 21. Appendix B: Software list

O autorze

Eran Dinur is an Emmy and VES award-winning VFX supervisor, artist, and author of The Filmmaker’s Guide to Visual Effects (2017). His film and TV work includes: The Trial of the Chicago 7, Hereditary, The Greatest Showman, Uncut Gems, The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire, Star Trek, and Iron Man. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts and the author of several popular VFX courses at fxphd.com.