Chapter 10. Cinematic Lighting
Fabio Pellacini Pixar Animation Studios
Kiril Vidimce Pixar Animation Studios
In this chapter, we present a simplified implementation of uberlight, a light shader that expresses the lighting model described by Ronen Barzel (1997, 1999). A superset of this model was developed over several years at Pixar Animation Studios and used for the production of animated movies such as the Walt Disney presentations of the Pixar Animation Studios films Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo.
Our Cg implementation is based on Barzel’s original approach and on the RenderMan Shading Language implementation written by Larry Gritz (Barzel 1999). Further details about this lighting approach and its uses in movie production ...
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