PBRT For Maya is a Maya plugin for the PBRT v3 renderer, along with example scenes showing the renderers functionality.
The github repository can be found here: PBRTForMaya
A direct download of the plugin and example scenes is available from github here.
Authors:
| Brian Karis, Epic Games | Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Duiker Research |
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FMX 2016 presentation on techniques used to create virtual humans in Unreal at Epic Games for the “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” trailer.
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Mitsuba For Maya is a Maya plugin for the Mitsuba renderer, along with example scenes showing the renderers functionality.
The github repository can be found here: MitsubaForMaya
A direct download of the plugin and example scenes is available from github here.
Authors:
| Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Duiker Research | Alexander Forsythe, AMPAS | Scott Dyer, AMPAS | Ray Feeney, RFX |
| Will McCown, Consultant | Jim Houston, Starwatcher Digital | Andy Maltz, AMPAS | Doug Walker, Autodesk |
Abstract:
The Academy Color Encoding System 1.0 (ACES) was launched in December 2014 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The result of over 10 years of industry-driven development and testing, ACES provides a standardized color management infrastructure to replace what was lost in the transition away from film. A key application addressed by ACES 1.0 is visual effects production. The addition of the ACEScg color encoding to compositing, lighting, rendering and other CG workflows will simplify element interchange and preview, as well as enable high dynamic range and wide gamut deliverables.
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“ACES 1.0 OpenColorIO config”, a presentation at the Siggraph 2015 ACES Birds of a Feather.
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A presentation from the Siggraph 2010 Course on Color presentation “Filmic Tonemapping for Real-time Rendering”. This is an extension of the presentation from 2006 that includes an analytical approximation used in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2 as well as still from the game.
Articles about the technique or games that have used the technique
Slides can be found below.
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FMX 2008 presentation “Speed Racer – Advances in Rendering” on the look development, lighting and rendering work done for Speed Racer at Digital Domain
Authors:
| Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Digital Domain |
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A presentation at Electronic Arts in 2006 on Filmic Tonemapping, a technique from film that became very applicable to games with the addition of support for HDR lighting and rendering in graphics cards.
Articles about the technique or games that have used the technique
Slides are available below.
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The Siggraph 2003 presentation on the ESC Lighting Reconstruction Toolkit, an Image-Based Lighting approach used on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions are online here.
Authors:
| Haarm-Pieter Duiker, ESC Entertainment |
Abstract:
The demands of photo-realism required of the effects for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions led us to create a system for directly and accurately reconstructing real world lighting environments. The Lighting Reconstruction Toolkit builds on research in the area of Image-based Lighting and extends current techniques to enable the reconstruction of lighting that more closely matches the real world.
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