Re: Los Angeles XSI User Group meeting this Thursday - Nov 2nd

Date : Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:47:08 +0000
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Axel Akesson" <axel.akesson(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: Los Angeles XSI User Group meeting this Thursday - Nov 2nd
Andy, what thread are you refering to? Do you have a link?

"There was a whole long semi-controversial thread about this a while ago,
and since then, we've been incorporating linear lighting workflow into
some of our projects with really great results."

Cheers,
Axel

Andy Jones wrote:
> The talk will be a somewhat loose discussion of techniques for
> rendering in a way that deals with light similar to how high dynamic
> range photographs deal with it. I.e., rendering images pre-gamma
> correction. There was a whole long semi-controversial thread about
> this a while ago, and since then, we've been incorporating linear
> lighting workflow into some of our projects with really great results.
> In general, gamma and color spaces doesn't seem to be something that
> the average cg artist knows a whole lot about, so the goal is just to
> share some of what we've learned. I'm going to try to keep the talk
> pretty accessible, restricting the techniques to just
> factory-installed render tree nodes (so just simple multiplicative
> exposures and exponential gamma corrections). I just want as many
> people as possible to walk away with at least a general sense of what
> the data in their textures and renders really "means" when interpreted
> as light, and what the potential benefits are to rendering this way.
> If there's interest, I'd love to continue a more technical dialogue
> after the presentation on this list or better yet, on XSIBase, as
> there's way too much to cover in a user group presentation, and I
> certainly don't claim to have all the answers on the topic. In
> particular, it's pretty open-ended how a linear light workflow should
> be implemented in XSI.
>
> - Andy

Search the XSI List archives here or use the advanced search form to search across mailing lists. Searching help is available.
This site supposedly brought to you by Benjamin Grosser and the Imaging Technology Group.