Starting my new course – special for 2D/3D artist, ta and can be interesting to some programmers with this topics:

• Color – lets talk about color
  • RGB and other models – how the rgb was found
  • Gamma correction – what is gamma correction today, white balance etc.
  • Linear space – what is linear space and why we use it
  • LDR/HDR – what is HDR and LDR what the difference
  • Tonemapping – how to use and why we need to have tonemapping

• Forward vs Deferred
  • Deferred is everywhere – why everybody switch to deferred
  • Problems – what the problems we have with deferred
  • Combination – how we can use both of them and why do this
  • New approach – Screen space effects

• PBR workflows – why use PBR
  • Shading models – lambert, burley, etc..
  • Specular vs metallic – what the difference
  • Albedo, glossines, roughes, specular, ao, cavity – different maps
  • Metals and dielectrics – how to choose
  • Lighting models – what models are

• Lighting – for PBR
  • Brdfs – what is BRDF
  • Different BRDF/BTDF models – what the difference
  • Energy conservation – why it’s important
  • Fresnel – what is Fresnel term and how it affect metallic
  • How IBL fits here – when we use IBL
  • Area lights – what the difference between area and directional

• Image base lighting – what is IBL
  • IBL in games – how and why we use it
  • Irradiance environment map (IEM) – approaches
  • Spherical harmonics – approaches
  • Volumetric lighting

• PBR Camera – final image post-processing
  • Camera – why is important (LUV,SHUTTER SPEED OTHER)
  • High values – color space and dynamic range
  • Antialiasing
  • Optical effects – Optic, Lenses, Bokeh, Glare, Anamorphic
  • Motion blur, DOF

• Custom Lighting – complicated
  • Photon lighting
  • Crytek LPV
  • Unreal voxel cone tracing

• Ray Tracing and Distance functions
  • Raymarch – what it is and why we need to know
  • Approximations – how and why we should do it
  • Examples of approach – ray traced distance field soft shadows

• Texture Compression
  • Memory, quality, power, performance – four horsemen of texture compression
  • DXT – S3 compression.
  • BCn – compression
  • Atlases – what is this and why we need to use them
  • UV space – from 0 to 1, mirror, wrap and others

The main purprose – to have a solid understanding what everybody talking about every day but dont know exactly what is it. This is not a final listing here, I’m still WIP and adding a little bit more topics to cover. All is a rather simple form, without any complicated formulas or calculations, the task of the course – learn the concepts with which we operate every day.