"The Complete Guide To Photorealism For Visual Effects Visualization And Games

This new edition offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects architectural and product visualization and games. Emmy award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur offers readers a deeper understanding of the complex interplay of light surfaces atmospherics and optical effects and then discusses techniques to achieve this complexity in the digital realm covering 3D 2D and generative AI methodologies. In addition the book features artwork case studies and interviews with leading artists in the fields of VFX visualization and games. Exploring color integration light and surface behavior atmospherics shading texturing physically-based rendering procedural modeling compositing matte painting lens/camera effects and much more Dinur offers a compelling elegant guide to achieving photorealism in digital media and creating imagery that is seamless from real footage. In this second edition the book explores generative AI as a tool for producing photoreal content. It focuses on various workflows and techniques for controlling the generative process and guiding AI models toward the desired results. The book’s broad perspective makes this detailed guide suitable for VFX visualization and game artists and students as well as directors architects designers and anyone who strives to achieve convincing believable visuals in digital media. |The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects Visualization and Games