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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| What You Need to Know | |
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| Visual Communication, Good Design, and Aesthetics | |
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| Visual Communication | |
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| Good Design | |
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| Value | |
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| Shape | |
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| Motion | |
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| Relative Size | |
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| Figure/Ground | |
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| Color | |
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| Color Relativity and Color Constancy | |
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| Texture | |
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| Closure | |
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| Aesthetics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Realism, Photorealism, and When Being Convincing is Best | |
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| Realism | |
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| Linear Perspective | |
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| Aerial Perspective and Perspective of Disappearance | |
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| Preconceptions | |
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| Photorealism | |
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| The Frame | |
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| Two Dimensions, Not Three | |
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| Relationships Matter | |
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| Being Convincing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Technical Issues: The Digital Environment and Delivery Media | |
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| Color | |
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| Digital Color | |
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| Color Mixing | |
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| Color Space or Color Gamut | |
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| White Point | |
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| Gamma | |
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| Using Gamma as a Design Technique | |
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| Colorbars | |
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| Contrast Ratio and Ambient Light | |
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| Alpha | |
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| Pixels | |
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| Frames and Fields | |
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| Summary | |
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| Materials: Technology and Use | |
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| Some Definitions | |
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| What Does a Computer Think a Material Is? | |
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| It Is All About Light: Some Physics | |
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| What Does the Software Think a Material Is? | |
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| Software Interfaces | |
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| Shaders | |
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| Material Components | |
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| The Use of Image Maps and Procedural Maps | |
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| Complex Materials | |
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| Mapping and Unwrapping | |
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| Image Editing and Rendering | |
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| Summary | |
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| Shaders | |
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| Surface Shaders: General Description and Examples | |
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| General-Use Shader Types | |
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| Light Response Attributes: The Big Three | |
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| Diffuse | |
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| Specular | |
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| Ambient | |
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| Other Common Shader Attributes | |
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| Bump Mapping and Displacement | |
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| Transparency, Refraction, and Translucency | |
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| Luminescence | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Correspondence Chart | |
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| Summary | |
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| Material Creation Interfaces | |
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| 3ds max Material Editor | |
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| Material Editor Rollouts | |
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| Lightwave Surface Editor | |
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| Adding Texture Maps | |
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| Maya Hypershade and Attribute Editor | |
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| Adding Texture Maps | |
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| Summary | |
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| Image Maps and Procedural Maps | |
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| Image Maps | |
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| Formats and Compression | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Aliasing and Sampling | |
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| Image Map Interfaces | |
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| Photoshop for 3D Artists | |
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| Procedural Maps | |
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| Checker(board) | |
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| Noise | |
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| Gradient/Ramp | |
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| Summary--Comparing the Two | |
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| Pulling It Together: Initial Tutorial | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Using the Material Editor | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial: Using the Surface and Texture Editors | |
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| Maya Tutorial: Using the Hypershade and Attribute Editor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Light and Surfaces | |
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| Some (Very Simple) Physics | |
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| Models of Illumination: Local Illumination | |
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| Models of Illumination: Global Illumination | |
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| Radiosity | |
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| Raytracing | |
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| The Two Together | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Raytracing | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Radiosity | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial: Raytracing | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial: Radiosity | |
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| Maya Tutorial: Raytracing | |
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| Maya and Radiosity | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: High Dynamic Range Image-Based Rendering | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial: Lightwave High Dynamic Range Image-Based Rendering | |
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| Maya | |
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| Summary | |
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| Complex Materials | |
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| Displacement | |
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| Double-Sided Surface Material | |
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| Multiple Surface Materials per Mesh Surface | |
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| Superimposing More than One Surface Material, Shader, or Texture | |
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| Additive and Subtractive | |
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| Difference | |
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| Multiply | |
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| Double-Layer Specular Shaders | |
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| Making Metallic Materials | |
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| Material Types for Compositing | |
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| Labels | |
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| Backgrounds | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Tutorial 10A: An Outdoor Scene | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial 10A: An Outdoor Scene | |
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| Maya Tutorial 10A: An Outdoor Scene | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial 10B: Fresh Mountain Tea | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial 10B: Fresh Mountain Tea | |
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| Maya Tutorial 10B: Fresh Mountain Tea | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mapping and Unwrapping | |
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| The Mapping Problem | |
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| The Mapping Solution | |
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| One Solution: Projection Mapping | |
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| Another Solution: Explicit UV Mapping | |
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| UVs Are Arbitary | |
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| UVs Are Relative | |
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| Image Maps May Look Weird | |
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| Some Specific Software Information | |
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| 3ds max | |
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| Lightwave | |
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| Maya | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Creating the Head | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial: Lightwave | |
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| Maya Tutorial | |
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| 3ds max Tutorial: Creating the Body | |
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| Lightwave Tutorial | |
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| Maya Tutorial | |
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| Summary | |
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| Rendering | |
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| What Is Rendering? | |
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| Testing Animation | |
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| Some Rendering Tips | |
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| Delivery Media | |
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| Anti-Aliasing | |
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| Surface Texture Baking | |
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| Post Processing | |
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| Compositing | |
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| 3ds max Software-Specific Information | |
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| Render Controls | |
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| Anti-Aliasing | |
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| Testing Animation | |
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| Optimizing Renders | |
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| Surface Texture Baking | |
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| Post Processing | |
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| Compositing | |
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| Lightwave Software-Specific Information | |
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| Render Controls | |
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| Anti-Aliasing | |
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| Testing Animation | |
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| Surface Texture Baking | |
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| Post Processing | |
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| Compositing | |
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| Maya Software-Specific Information | |
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| Render Controls | |
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| Anti-Aliasing | |
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| Testing Animation | |
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| Optimizing Renders | |
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| Surface Texture Baking | |
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| Post Processing | |
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| Compositing | |
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| Summary | |
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| About the CD-ROM | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |