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3D LIGHTING BOOK

Digital Lighting & Rendering:
Third Edition

Replacing earlier editions published in 2000 and 2006, the highly recommended book on 3D lighting is now available in an up-to-date Third Edition, providing an essential guide you can use with any 3D program. Read about what's new and what's inside in a chapter-by-chapter overview...

ABOUT

About Jeremy Birn
Jeremy Birn is a lighting artist at Pixar, and has worked on movies such as The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Coco, Toy Story 4, Soul, Luca, and Turning Red.

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Ten Tips for More Convincing Lighting and Rendering
An article I wrote for my publisher's website

Lighting & Rendering in Maya: Lights and Shadows
Over 3 hours of free video tutorials

CG Industry
Articles about careers in CG

Archives
Older 3D art, lighting & compositing tutorials, Secrets of Rhinoceros, NURBS models, and Softimage modeling tutorials.

Glossary
3D Terms Defined and Illustrated

Calibration
Basic Monitor Calibration

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