Christian Bloch is a highly acclaimed Visual Effects Artists who has been working professionally in the field for years. He speaks the language of an artist, and he understands that a hands-on tutorial is a thousand times more valuable to the learning of HDRI than scientific formulas. A native of Germany, he works and lives in Hollywood, California. His work can be seen inStarTrek: Enterprise,Smallville,Invasion, and a growing number of movies. He has been a pioneer in the practical application of HDRI in post-production, especially on a TV budget. Years of research and development went into his diploma thesis about HDRI, which was honored with an achievement award. Since that thesis was… put online in July 2004, it has been downloaded more than 15,000 times, and has been established as the primary German source of information on HDRI.The HDRI Handbookis the successor of Bloch's diploma thesis, rewritten completely from the ground up in English, and heavily expanded and updated.