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LIGHTING & RENDERING TECHNIQUES
This course will enable the students to
- Gain practical knowledge about Lighting & Rendering in Maya.
Course Outcomes (COs):
Learning Outcomes (at course level)
| Learning and teaching strategies | Assessment Strategies |
Students will : CO155. Examine and Correlate lights, HDRI based light, materials and shaders for scenes and props.
CO156. Experiment with various types of environmental lightings.
CO157. Integrate natural, artificial lighting and physical rendering.
CO158. Compose lighting effects and render scenes using cinematic techniques.
CO159. Create and develop architectural, environmental and product scenes. | Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments, Demonstrations, Group activities, Teaching using advanced video tools.
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.
| Assessment Strategies Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
CONTENTS
Introduction to lighting, Attributes of Light, Understanding Shaders, Adding a light source, Testing the lights.
Understanding the Art of Lighting – one, two and three point lighting, Various types of Lights and their uses, Outdoor lighting, indoor lighting, product lighting, Optical FX.
Lighting with mental ray: Shadow-Casting Lights, Shadow Preview, Depth Map Shadows, mental ray Shadow Map Overrides, Ray Trace Shadows, and Indirect Lighting: Global Illumination Working with Photon Maps, Color Bleeding, Caustics, and Caustic Light Setup.
Concepts of Rendering, Render settings, rendering optimization, Level of Details [LOD], Ray tracing.Types of renderer. Introduction to render passes. Indirect Illumination: Final Gathering, Light-Emitting Objects, Final Gathering Maps, Using Lights with Final Gathering, Image-Based Lighting, Physical Sun and Sky, Editing the Sky Settings, mental ray Area Lights, Light Shaders.
Arnold Lighting Techniques, Mesh Light, Environment Light, Arnold Rendering techniques, Render passes for Arnold.
Jeremy Birn, “Digital Lighting & Rendering” Second Edition New Riders (27 April 2006)
Boaz Livny “Mental ray for Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI: A 3D Artist's Guide to Rendering” Sybex (February 20, 2007)
- Kogent Learning Solutions Inc., “MAYA 2014 in Simple Steps”, Dreamtech Press 2014.
