For Monsters University and more recently for The Blue Umbrella, the lighting pipeline at
Pixar was completely rewritten and switched to a physically based and ray-traced system …

The first question many game developers ask in connection with physically-based shading
models is “Why bother?”. This is a valid question, since games do not aim at an exact …

The world around us is filled with subtle lighting effects, but until recently it was not possible
to duplicate these real-world effects in computer games because of the limits of consumer …

In the context of non‐photorealistic imaging, such as digital cel animation, lighting is
symbolic and stylized to depict the scene's mood and the geometric or physical features of …

Global illumination refers to a complete shading model that simulates real lighting and
reflection as accurately as possible. Whether used for product prototyping or special effects …

From the Publisher: Learn to animate like the veterans of Hollywood's biggest films! Inspired
3D Lighting and Compositing takes you behind the scenes and guides you in creating …

We describe a new paradigm for three-dimensional computer graphics, using projectors to
graphically animate physical objects in the real world. The idea is to replace a physical …

Physically based shading is increasingly important in both film and game production. By
adhering to physically based, energy-conserving shading models, one can easily create …

Dynamic lights are a crucial part of making a virtual scene seem realistic and alive. Accurate
lighting calculations are expensive and have been a major restriction in real-time …

Physically grounded shading models have been known for many years, but they have only
recently started to replace the” ad-hoc” models in common use for both film and game …