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

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The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Visualization and Games by Emmy award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur is a detailed manual for achieving photorealistic imagery in digital content. Covering visual effects, architectural and product visualisation, and games, it explores the interplay of light, surfaces, atmospherics and optical effects. The book presents both 3D and 2D techniques, enhanced by artwork, case studies and interviews with industry leaders, delving into subjects such as physically-based rendering, procedural modelling, compositing and lens effects to help artists create seamless visuals that mimic real footage.
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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.

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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.

Emmy award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complex interplay of light, surfaces, atmospherics, and optical effects. He discusses techniques to achieve this complexity in the digital realm, covering both 3D and 2D methodologies. Additionally, the book features artwork, case studies, and interviews with leading artists in the fields of VFX, visualization, and games.

Exploring colour, integration, light and surface behaviour, atmospherics, shading, texturing, physically-based rendering, procedural modelling, compositing, matte painting, lens/camera effects, and much more, Dinur offers a compelling, elegant guide to achieving photorealism in digital media and creating imagery that is seamless from real footage.

Its broad perspective makes this detailed guide suitable for VFX, visualization, and game artists and students, as well as directors, architects, designers, and anyone who strives to achieve convincing, believable visuals in digital media.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367199265

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 December 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 181 Halftones, color; 181 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 238

About the Author

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.

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