Fxphd BKD209 - Background Fundamentals July08:Cars| 3.67 GB

As usual, all members receive the popular Background Fundamentals as part of the membership for the term.

Cars are used as the vehicle this term to explore complex issues of light and matching textures in 3D. Through the use of car shoots for both film and TV we will explore a range of topics -- and these are topics that are applicable to a wide range of situations...not just limited to cars:

* high speed photography
* lighting real cars
* producing photoreal CGI cars
* BRDF, materials, and shaders
* Renderman
* Mental Ray
* HDR and car touch up
* integrating CGI into live action
* shooting cars on film and digitally- comparing looks and highlights

Also returning this term is the very popular "Mike's Digital Dailies Challenge Review" for the term challenges.

Class 1: Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.
Class 2: Drum tower continued.
Class 3: Basic paint theory.
Class 4: Lighting a car.
Class 5: Global illumination, HDR and cgi.
Class 6: BRDF (Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function) and shader design.
Class 7: Renderman.
Class 8: Mental Ray.
Class 9: Cheats.
Class 10: Comp finals.

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