Essential CG Lighting Techniques with 3ds Max, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Dedication
4. Full Title
5. Copyright
6. Table of Contents
7. About the author
8. Acknowledgments
9. Chapter 1 Introduction
   1. Who this book is for
   2. How to use this book
   3. Tutorials
   4. Software requirements
10. Part 1 > Theory
    1. Chapter 2 A little light theory
       1. Real world lighting explained
       2. The visible spectrum
       3. Color mixing
       4. Our perception of light
       5. Color temperature
       6. Color balance
       7. The behavior of light
       8. Understanding the qualities of light
    2. Chapter 3 CG lights examined
       1. Lights in CG
       2. Standard lights
       3. Sunlight and Daylight systems
       4. Photometric lights
       5. The anatomy of a CG light
    3. Chapter 4 Understanding shadows
       1. The importance of shadows
       2. Thetechnical side of shadows
       3. Faking it
       4. When to fake
       5. To use shadows or not?
       6. Shadow saturation
11. Part 2 > Techniques
    1. Chapter 5 Basic lighting techniques
       1. Learning to light
       2. Basic three-point lighting
       3. Key light
       4. Fill light
       5. Backlight
       6. Key-to-fill ratios
       7. Contrast
       8. Tutorial > three-point lighting
    2. Chapter 6 Further lighting techniques
       1. Making light work
       2. Other light types
       3. Area lights
       4. Tutorial > area lights
       5. Arrays
       6. Tutorial > light arrays
       7. Skylights
       8. High Dynamic Range imaging
       9. Tutorial > HDR skylight
    3. Chapter 7 Radiosity techniques
       1. Global illumination
       2. Light distribution
       3. Raytracing
       4. Radiosity
       5. Radiosity workflow
       6. Tutorial > radiosity workflow
    4. Chapter 8 Indoor lighting techniques
       1. Indoor lighting
       2. Outdoor light indoors
       3. Tutorial > radiosity techniques
       4. Tutorial > simulating global illumination
       5. Tutorial > HDR lighting
       6. Artificial lighting
       7. Tutorial > three-point artificial lighting
    5. Chapter 9 Outdoor lighting techniques
       1. The great outdoors
       2. Sunlight
       3. Skylight
       4. Sunlight and skylight together
       5. Tutorial > sunlight and skylight together
       6. Nighttime
       7. Moonlight
       8. Tutorial > moonlight
       9. Street lighting
       10. Tutorial > outdoor lighting fixtures
       11. Tutorial > neon lighting
    6. Chapter 10 Rendering with mental ray
       1. Physically-based lighting
       2. Tutorial > indirect illumination workflow
       3. Tutorial > Global Illumination
       4. Floating-point images
       5. Tutorial > floating-point images
       6. Tutorial > outdoor lighting
       7. Ambient occlusion
       8. Tutorial > ambient occlusion
       9. Caustics
       10. Tutorial > caustics with mental ray
       11. Rendering options
    7. Chapter 11 Match lighting
       1. Background plates
       2. Lighting reference data
       3. HDR
       4. Match lighting in practice
       5. Match lighting without reference
       6. Tutorial > match lighting
       7. mental ray production shaders
       8. Tutorial > match lighting with mental ray
    8. Chapter 12 Lighting Analysis
       1. Lighting analysis
       2. The Lighting Analysis Assistant
       3. Tutorial > lighting analysis
    9. Chapter 13 Lighting and lens effects
       1. Visual hooks
       2. Inside the lens
       3. Glows
       4. Tutorial > glows
       5. Lens flares
       6. Tutorial > lens flares
       7. Highlights
       8. Tutorial > highlights
    10. Chapter 14 Compositing
        1. Post production
        2. Compositing
        3. Render Elements
        4. Tutorial > Render Elements
        5. Combustion
        6. Tutorial > combustion
        7. Taking compositing further
12. Part 3 > Tips & tricks
    1. Chapter 15 In production
       1. Working efficiently
       2. The first step
       3. The key
       4. Fills and backlights
       5. Rendering
       6. Revision
       7. Production pipelines
       8. Modeling issues
       9. Texturing issues
       10. More revision
       11. Preparation
       12. Pitching for business
       13. Experimentation
13. Part 4 > Taking it further
    1. Chapter 16 Composition and drama
       1. Visual storytelling
       2. Composition
       3. Unity
       4. Grouping
       5. Emphasis
       6. Depth
       7. Mood and drama
       8. Positive and negative space
       9. The rule of thirds
    2. Chapter 17 Cameraworkandtechnicalities
       1. The camera in 3D
       2. Technical aspects
       3. Broadcast standards
       4. PAL and NTSC
       5. Aspect ratios
       6. Film formats
       7. Reframing
       8. Overscan
       9. Fields and motion blur
    3. Chapter 18 Looking further
       1. Looking beyond lighting
       2. Brazil
       3. finalRender
       4. Maxwell Render
       5. V-Ray
       6. MAXScript
       7. Plug-in away
       8. Useful websites
       9. Studio websites
14. Appendices
    1. Appendix A About the DVD
       1. The companion DVD
       2. Software requirements
       3. Tutorials
       4. Bonuschapters
       5. focalpress.com
       6. stinkypops.co.uk
       7. Calibrate
       8. Software
       9. Other menu items
    2. Appendix B Glossary
    3. Appendix C Bibliography
15. Index