The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Rendering, and Games. Eran Dinur

The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Rendering, and Games is a comprehensive guide to creating and enhancing photorealistic digital content. It offers an immersive experience in photorealism for visual effects, architectural visualization (archvis), products, and games.

Emmy Award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur offers readers a deeper understanding of the complex interactions between light, surfaces, atmosphere, and optical effects, and discusses methods for achieving photorealistic complexity in the digital realm, covering techniques for both 3D and 2D spaces. The book also features illustrations, case studies, and interviews with leading artists in VFX, rendering, and games. Exploring color, integration, light and surface behavior, atmosphere, shading, texturing, physically based rendering, procedural modeling, compositing, matte painting, lens/camera effects, and more, Dinur offers a compelling and elegant guide to achieving photorealism in digital media and creating images that are indistinguishable from the footage they were shot. The broad perspective makes this detailed guide useful for VFX, visualization, and game artists as well as students, filmmakers, architects, designers, and anyone else who seeks to achieve compelling, believable visuals in digital media.