1. Basic Lighting and Rendering
| 1."Unreal Engine Lighting and Rendering Essentials" by Muhammad A Moniem
“Unreal Engine Lighting and Rendering Essentials” Book Review: This book teaches how to make a game look great without slowing it down. It covers topics like creating and editing materials, rendering and shading, particle effects, and using Unreal’s GPU visualizer. The book includes examples and exercises to help readers learn. To understand this book, readers should have a good understanding of the C++ programming language. It is helpful for people who want to become game developers.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 2."Digital Lighting and Rendering (Voices That Matter)" by Jeremy Birn
“Digital Lighting and Rendering (Voices That Matter)” Book Review: This book teaches how to use graphic techniques like the pros in Hollywood. Real-life case studies on films such as Monster’s University, Toy Story 3 and Wall-E are included. The book covers topics like identifying and solving problems, breaking scenes into passes and layers, mimicking photographic exposure, lighting characters, and production pipelines for visual effects. It also explores the latest trends and provides downloadable 3D scenes from the author’s website. This book is useful for anyone who wants to master graphic techniques in video editing and visual effects, and demonstrates how to create strategic lighting for any project using 3D applications.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 3."Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering" by Aaron W Powell
“Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering” Book Review: This book explains every concept of blender with step-by-step tutorials. Chapters such as lighting, shapes, camera positioning, rendering techniques and methods are discussed at length. It possesses multiple examples through which users can learn the concepts quickly. To read this book a user should have some experience in blender and blender interface. This book can be used by any professionals, designing students or freelancers who want to improve their render quality.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 4."Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook" by Bernardo Iraci
“Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook” Book Review: This book teaches many ways to make pictures look good using a computer program called Blender. It talks about how to create 3D models, add textures, and light scenes in Blender. The book has tips and examples to help people understand. People who want to use this book should already know a little bit about Blender. The book shows how to use Blender step by step to make pictures that look real or like cartoons. It has different examples arranged in a certain order.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 5."Digital Lighting and Rendering" by Jeremy Birn
“Digital Lighting and Rendering” Book Review: This book focuses on how to create 3D materials and implement rendering techniques. It covers lighting design basics, shadows and occlusion, lighting for environments and architecture. It also includes chapters on cameras and exposure, composition and staging, and the use of color. Each chapter is explained with many examples. The book helps people to create great materials and lighting effects in any 3D software. It is useful for any visual designer.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 6."Real-Time Realistic Rendering of Nature Scenes with Dynamic Lighting" by Kevin Boulanger
“Real-Time Realistic Rendering of Nature Scenes with Dynamic Lighting” Book Review: This book explains how to create realistic images in a simple and effective way. The techniques presented in the book help to make the image creation process less complicated. The book covers various topics such as lighting, material properties, glass and tree rendering. It also discusses direct and indirect lighting, shadows, and glass rendering methods. Each chapter is filled with equations and colorful images. The book is suitable for visual designers, game designers, and material designers.
advertisement
advertisement
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | |
| 7."Basic Rendering: Effective Drawing for Designers, Artists and Illustrators" by Robert W Gill
“Basic Rendering: Effective Drawing for Designers, Artists and Illustrators” Book Review: This book teaches the fundamental drawing techniques. It covers chapters on light, atmospheric effects, shade and shadow, contrast, and drawing water. Other topics include skiagraphy, overlapping, glass rendering, and light reflection and absorption. The book describes various hand-drawing techniques with black and white images. It is suitable for anyone who wants to learn how to draw realistic images.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 8."Light Shadow Space: Architectural Rendering with Cinema 4D" by Horst Sondermann
“Light Shadow Space: Architectural Rendering with Cinema 4D” Book Review: This book teaches how to use cinema 4d software for architectural rendering. It covers topics like 3D lighting, importing CAD models, creating shadows, and achieving a realistic sense of space. There are over 1000 color images included for better understanding, and exercises are provided to help readers learn the techniques effectively. This book is useful for architecture students and professionals.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
2. Advanced Lighting and Rendering
| 1."Advances in Modelling, Animation and Rendering" by John Vince and Rae Earnshaw
“Advances in Modelling, Animation and Rendering” Book Review: This book covers various topics in computer graphics and digital media systems that can be helpful to anyone in this field. It includes real-time computer animation, computational geometry, graphics hardware architecture, data visualization, and data compression. The book covers both image-based rendering and non-photo-realistic rendering techniques. It also discusses geometric and solid modeling, as well as physically-based modeling.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 2."Advances in Automotive Lighting Technology (Special Publications)" by Society of Automotive Engineers
“Advances in Automotive Lighting Technology (Special Publications)” Book Review: The book covers the latest advancements in automotive lighting technology and their impact on driver safety and comfort. It includes contributions from experts in the field of automotive lighting and covers topics such as LED lighting, adaptive lighting, and lighting for electric vehicles. The book is aimed at professionals in the automotive industry, including engineers, designers, and researchers.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 3."Advances in Lighting Technology (Pt (Series) (Warrendale, Pa.), 98.)" by Daniel J Holt
“Advances in Lighting Technology (Pt (Series) (Warrendale, Pa.), 98.)” Book Review: The book covers a broad range of topics, including the physics of light, light sources, lighting design, and the integration of lighting into various applications. The author provides an in-depth look at the latest research and technology in the field of lighting, making it a valuable resource for professionals in the lighting industry, as well as students and researchers in the field.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 4."Light Gauge Metal Structures Recent Advances (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)" by Jacques Rondal and Dan Dubina
“Light Gauge Metal Structures Recent Advances (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)” Book Review: The book explains the latest research on light gauge metal structures manufactured using carbon, stainless steel, and aluminum alloys. It discusses how these structures are applied in residential, non-residential, and industrial buildings, as well as pallet rock systems. The book also covers the metallic materials employed in producing these structures.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
advertisement
3. Professional Lighting and Rendering
| 1."Digital Lighting and Rendering" by Jeremy Birn
“Digital Lighting and Rendering” Book Review: The book covers a wide range of topics, including the fundamentals of light, color theory, shadows, and reflections. It also goes into great detail about various software programs used for digital lighting and rendering, such as Maya, 3ds Max, and Pixar’s RenderMan.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 2."GPU Pro 5: Advanced Rendering Techniques" by Wolfgang Engel
“GPU Pro 5: Advanced Rendering Techniques” Book Review: The book covers various topics related to rendering, lighting, and effects in image space. It also includes discussions on mobile devices, 3D engine design, and compute. The book delves into different techniques such as rasterization of liquids, ray tracing of art assets, and physically based area lights used in a rasterized engine. It explains the concepts of volumetric light effects, screen-space grass, usage of quaternions, and quadtree implementation on the GPU. The book also covers the latest developments in deferred lighting on mobile phones and OpenCL. It further explains optimizations for mobile devices, morph targets, and tiled deferred blending methods. The book provides practical and effective ideas and procedures to help solve graphic programming challenges.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 3."ARCHETYPE VFX Breakdown: Lighting and Rendering Pipeline with Rob Nederhorst" by Robert Nederhorst
“ARCHETYPE VFX Breakdown: Lighting and Rendering Pipeline with Rob Nederhorst” Book Review: This book provides insights into the lighting and rendering pipeline in visual effects (VFX) production. The author, Robert Nederhorst, is an experienced VFX artist and provides a step-by-step guide to his lighting and rendering process for a short film called “Archetype”. The book covers a range of topics including pre-production planning, shot breakdowns, lighting, compositing and rendering techniques. The book is targeted towards intermediate to advanced level VFX artists who want to improve their skills and learn new techniques.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 4."GPU Pro 6: Advanced Rendering Techniques" by Wolfgang Engel
“GPU Pro 6: Advanced Rendering Techniques” Book Review: The book provides a compilation of state-of-the-art techniques for advanced GPU programming, covering rendering methods that can be executed on DirectX or OpenGL runtimes using any programming language. It discusses the unique obstacles involved in developing games across multiple software platforms, including PCs, video consoles, and mobile devices. The book delves into topics such as programming for handheld devices, image space effects, and geometry manipulation, as well as covering shadows, 3D engine design, graphics tools, and environmental effects. It also includes examples of CUDA, DirectCompute, and OpenCL.
advertisement
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 5."Lighting in AutoCAD: Real World Visualization" by Aaron McDonald and Sasha Barysheva
“Lighting in AutoCAD: Real World Visualization” Book Review: The book demonstrates the power of AutoCAD tools in producing captivating and striking visuals by incorporating lighting into CAD models. It covers fundamental lighting principles in computer-generated imagery, and assists in unleashing the complete potential of AutoCAD for generating stunning design visualizations.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
| 6."Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting" by Lee Lanier
“Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting” Book Review: The book presents advanced techniques for adding realistic detail to models, and offers proven tutorials that are based on real-world experience, providing practical skills. It also showcases time-saving tools and their applications. This book is designed to take rendering skills to the next level, using advanced tools and techniques.
| |
| Buy-this-Book (India) | Buy-this-book (US) |
