Chapter 7
Understanding Visual Effects, Lighting, and Rendering
3D visual effects, lighting, and rendering are the end stages of the production pipeline and will constantly cross paths to create the final look of the project. They are so closely tied to one another that you cannot control one of these processes without the others. 3D visual effects enable us to create natural-seeming and complex motions that would be too difficult to animate by hand. Lighting and rendering are so closely tied to visual effects because the look of the visual effects is dictated by the render engine that you are using as well as the lights that will illuminate the effect. In this chapter, you will look at the basics of each of these stages to better understand ...
