What is Compositing? Compositing is a step after rendering in the CG production workflow. The process serves to assemble all the different render passes and layers produced by the lighting deptarment. They are the 3D artists who finalize the look of every shot in a film. It takes a tremendous amount of people to do this step on a feature film. Is is also often associated with the lighting process, because they are closely interlinked […]
Base Material Properties A 3D material is a collection of attributes that aim to simulate the visual ‘physical properties’ of real-world or imaginary objects. Each attribute determines how the light bounces off a surface for a specific method for reflecting light (diffuse, specular, reflection, sss). Any attribute can be colored, parametrized, textured or painted in 2D or 3D, inside or outside the shading software. Understanding how material attributes function are important for the texture artists […]
Texture Artists Texture artists are the digital painters of the virtual world. They are used in everything from 3D animation films, TV series, visual effect sequences in live-action movies, commercials and video games. They responsible for creating the overall colored look for 3D models, based on designs made by the ‘2D concept art’ department in pre-production. 3D models are a flat grey or uniform color, if any, when coming out of the modeling departments. They […]