[...]... Using Spotlights and Shadow Maps Using the “Spinning Light” Trick Faking Volumetrics The Old Geometry Trick Chapter 26 xii 372 376 3 78 3 78 379 380 3 81 382 385 385 386 387 390 392 393 393 395 397 397 400 4 01 4 01 402 403 406 411 412 412 413 415 419 420 Lighting Setup... Discussion: Working with the Design Team Planning Sketches and Drawings The Magic Sheet A Formal Lighting Plot A Formal Lighting Schedule 286 286 286 287 289 289 290 290 2 91 2 91 293 293 294 296 2 98 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Implementation ... a human hand lies or just how cotton fabric crumples, they will draw hands in many different positions and they will get cotton and lay it out, drawing it over and over until they fully understand its properties and behaviors Lighting is just like this If you expect to create realistic lighting, you absolutely must get out there and observe lighting conditions See the properties of light and shadow... Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 x Mood Setting Angle and Shadow Contrast Intensity Motion Weather 267 267 2 68 2 68 2 68 2 68 2 68 269 269 269 270 270 2 71 2 71 2 71 2 71 272 272 ... 309 310 310 311 314 315 317 Identifying and Recreating Light Sources in a Plate About Photo-Real Lighting About Plates and Light Sources Replicating the Light Source The Mirror Ball A More Complex Lighting Environment Rendering the Element ... unique talents required to pass that knowledge on to others Get ready to attend lighting school LightWave 3D 8 Lighting will teach you how to work with lights inside of LightWave and how to break down real-world lighting so that you can recreate it in your virtual world This book will take your lighting to a whole new level and give your work that edge you’ve been looking for I’m sure you will be left... Jaworski, and KHOU Channel 11 , the CBS affiliate in Houston xv Acknowledgments First and foremost, I must offer my gratitude to the readers of LightWave 3D 7.5 Lighting who provided generous praise of that first book as well as encouragement and suggestions to update the work and keep it current Secondly, I wish to thank my publisher, Wes Beckwith, for his endless encouragement, support, and enthusiasm... 274 275 2 78 279 280 280 Style What Is Style? So What Do I Do? Less Is More Consistency between Shots 282 282 283 284 284 Designing Lighting The Design Process Script Analysis Understanding the Story Research... as possible Analyze and study both lighting and shadow Understand how different textures react to specific lighting conditions Know what a reflection is before you attempt to alter the reflectivity, specularity, and glossiness of a texture at the workstation As a lighting artist, it is your duty to reach a Zen understanding of lighting Be one with the light, young pixel samurai, and you shall reap the... competent visual effects lighting is primarily technical, requiring an understanding of the real light sources and techniques used in the plate and how to replicate those sources and techniques using specific tools available in LightWave Lighting design requires these technical skills and also calls on the artist’s knowledge of such qualities as intensity, direction, color, shadow, and contrast The xxv . 10 5 QuickColor 10 7 HSV < > RGB 1 08 Tint & Shade 1 08 Wavelength 10 9 Kelvin 11 0 Chapter 9 Shadow Types and Their Typical Uses 11 2 Shadow Size and Softness 11 3 LightWave s Shadow Types 11 6 Ray. 1 78 HyperVoxels 17 9 Volumetric Lights 18 1 Additive and Subtractive Volumetric Lights 18 5 A Cool Volumetric Light Trick 18 6 Creating “Atmosphere” 18 7 Chapter 15 Lens Flares 18 9 Lens Flares Defined 18 9 Why. 13 9 Falloff 14 4 Range/Nominal Distance 14 7 Exclude Objects 1 48 Ambient Intensity 14 9 Chapter 12 Radiosity 15 2 Radiosity Defined 15 2 The Tools 15 3 When and Where to Use Radiosity 1 58 Radiosity Cheats and