This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Considerations relevant to the international job title of a lighting and rendering technical director.
Total contact hours: 56
Private study hours:94
Total study hours:150
Only available to students on programmes owned by The School of Engineering and Digital Arts
100% Portfolio
• Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, Apodaca, Anthony A. and Larry Gritz., Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. ISBN 1-55860-618-1
• Digital Lighting and Rendering, Jeremy Birn, 2006, New Riders, ISBN 0321316312
• Learning Autodesk Maya2009-The Special Effects Handbook, Autodesk 2009, Autodesk Maya Press
Background Reading:
• Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting. Keller, Max. Prestel Verlag, 1999
• Film Lighting, Prentice Hall Press, Malkiewicz, Kris. 1986. ISBN 0671622714
• The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics, Upstill, Steve. Addison-Wesley, 1990. ISBN 0-201-50868-0
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. Utilise lighting and shading for storytelling and visual communication.
2. Have an understanding of the fundamental, theoretical concepts in digital lighting.
3. Gain the necessary skills and experience to produce customized light and shading models, which provide aesthetic possibilities not available from "off-the-shelf" packages.
4. Be competent in the use of software and hardware renderers.
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