Production Rendering

Rating:
Summary: A must for the field
Review: If you are working in the field there is nowadays a lot of literature on how to write a renderer, and everybody has the silver-bullet to solve at last the rendering porblem.

This book thakes you through current technologies and gives you a very clear base on where to start when designing a modern renderer for high quality imagery.

It is as well really useful for all the people who want to do a really good job when using a renderer, making you understand what's going on, and what *should be going on* in your imagery

Rating:
Summary: quickly useful techniques
Review: The book is a clear indicator of progress in computer graphics. It shows how years of graphics research can now be subsumed into state of the art understanding and packages. Available on an off-the-shelf manner [so to speak] for the production designer. Suppose you are the latter. While you undoubtedly can admire the ingenuity of the research that preceded you in this field, you are not a researcher. Instead, the rendering techniques are a means to an end for you.

So the book's value is to bring many of these ideas together into a coherent and quickly useful form.