Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Introduction

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 1

    • User Interface

    • General Workflow

    • Setting up ACES
  • 2

    Lighting

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 2

    • Area Light

    • Area Light: Other Shapes

    • Mesh Light

    • Spot Light

    • IES Light

    • Infinite Light

    • Dome Light

    • Sun and Sky

    • Interior Lighting

    • Redshift Environment

    • Shadow Matte, Adding 3D Objects to Photos
  • 3

    Global Illumination

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 3

    • What is GI?

    • Brute Force

    • Irradiance Point Cloud

    • Irradiance Cache

    • GI and Animation
  • 4

    Shading

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 4

    • Redshift Material: Diffuse

    • Redshift Material: Translucency

    • Redshift Material: Reflection

    • Redshift Material: Refraction

    • Diffuse Material, Refraction Subsurface

    • Redshift Material: Sheen

    • Redshift Material: Multi-SSS

    • Redshift Material: Coating

    • Redshift Material: Overall

    • Bump Mapping, Normal Mapping, Bump Blender, and Round Corners

    • Tessellation, Displacement Mapping and Displacement Blender

    • Material Blender, Color Layer, Mix and Composite

    • How to Basic Shader

    • How to Human Skin

    • Principled Hair

    • Car Paint

    • Ray Switch, Shader Switch

    • Triplanar

    • AO and Curvature

    • User Data Nodes

    • User Data Nodes: Reading Mograph and Field Colors

    • Sprite Node

    • Other Nodes

    • Substance Support
  • 5

    Camera

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 5

    • Basics of Redshift Camera

    • Understanding Photographic Exposure

    • Depth of Field

    • Motion Blur

    • Camera Types

    • Color Controls and LUT

    • Lens Effects
  • 6

    Rendering

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 6

    • Basic Render Settings

    • Sampling Explained

    • Automatic Sampling

    • Unified Sampling

    • Unified Sampling: Practical Examples

    • Bucket and Progressive Rendering

    • Redshift RT

    • ACES

    • Render View

    • Denoising

    • AOVs

    • Custom AOVs

    • Light Group AOVs

    • Compositing AOVs in Fusion

    • Caustics

    • Sample Filtering

    • Other Settings
  • 7

    Miscellaneous

    • Download Project Files - Chapter 7

    • Redshift Volume

    • Object Tag

    • Proxy

    • Particles and Splines

    • Tools