Learn the essential techniques to present computer-aided designs in print, video, and the web.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Course prerequisites
- Choosing a visualization app
- Project asset management
- Importing and referencing
- Layout and scene organization
- Shading surfaces with materials
- Adding detail with textures
- Daylighting
- Practical lighting
- Studio lighting
- Global illumination
- Exposure and tone mapping
- Lightbox photography
- Close-up and macro photography
- Vehicles and large-scale objects
- Architecture and interior design
- Orthographic and isometric projections
- Working with high dynamic range images
- Using transparency and alpha channels
- Compositing render passes
- Rendering light groups
- Rendering for print and prepress
- Converting color modes and profiles
- Turntables and camera orbits
- Controlling camera rotations
- Rigging a walkthrough camera
- Rendering an animation
- Next steps
Taught by
Aaron F. Ross
