Category Lighting

Topics about lighting in games.

Lighting Theory

• Practical Light and Color ($) by Jeremy Vickery - video by a lighting artist at Pixar
• Light for Visual Artists: Understanding & Using Light in Art & Design ($) by Richard Yot
• Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter ($) by James Gurney - lighting from a painter's perspective, lavishly illustrated.
• Painting With Light ($) by John Alton - cinematographer's guide to lighting
• Digital Lighting and Rendering ($) by Jeremy Birn - digital artist's guide to lighting
• The Hows and Whys of Level Design - Lighting ($) by Sjoerd 'hourences' De Jong
• Understanding Color by Andrew Price - video by a Blender artist, see also the web page version.
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  > LIGHT - a detailed tutorial by Richard Yot
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  > Advanced Lighting Techniques by Amaan Akram

Lighting Tutorials

• Character Lighting Tutorial - Marmoset By - by Joe 'EarthQuake' Wilson
• Lighting Basics and You... thread on the Polycount Forum.
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  > Three-Point Lighting for 3D Renderings by Jeremy Birn
• UDK Volumetric Light Beam Tutorial

Wiki Pages

• Model Presentation#Lighting
• 1. Painting_Fundamentals
• AmbientOcclusionVertexColor
• SmoothingGroups
• VertexNormal

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