Softimage Production Series DVD 1 - Rendering Concepts in XSI 4.2

Master XSI rendering technology and achieve optimal rendering performance as well as outstanding image quality with this complete set of fundamental concepts that explain how raytracing internals work.

• Expand your knowledge of the technical relationship between anti-aliasing and motion blur so that you can maximize your render speed without compromising render quality.

• Pre-compute illumination and Final Gathering into textures and significantly improve your rendering speed by fully understanding XSI Render Map technology.

• Achieve award-winning imagery with this extensive overview of the XSI Displacement Map, and improve rendering speed using this complete and thorough explanation of the mental ray? BSP tree.

Main Chapters:

• Anti-aliasing and Adaptive Sampling

• Motion Blur

• BSP Tree

• Displacement Maps

• GPU surface FX

• Render Map - high to low res

• Render Map - Bump Mapping

• Render Map - multiple objects to individual maps

• Render Map - multiple objects to single map

• Optimizing Render map using unique UVs

• Scenes and Documentation