PROD244-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Lighting and Rendering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

To create visually interesting and believable art assets for animation, film and games, it is important for artists to understand the underlying theory and techniques to interpret light and materials from the real world into assets for production pipelines. In this course, students will learn about lighting and rendering techniques and technologies which make visuals possible in modern day digital screen outputs, what their limitations are, and what tools and techniques can be used to make the best looking graphics while optimising for performance. This course covers surface and lighting techniques, including interpretation of real objects using techniques such as photogrammetry to capture existing 3D objects and environments. Students will also learn the theory of illumination models and rendering pipelines, and how these things can be used to create believable renders. Students will be shown how to texture 3D models, what shaders are and how they work, and time will be spent looking at how these can be optimised to maximum rendering performance. Finally, students will learn how to use industry standard tools such as parts of the Adobe suite to create the most aesthetically interesting renderings possible.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 16:00 Otakaro 236 L2 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Workshop A A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 11:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Monday 11:00 - 13:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Monday 16:00 - 18:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Wednesday 08:00 - 10:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Workshop B B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Friday 10:00 - 12:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Friday 12:00 - 14:00 Otakaro 205 Computer Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

Oana Jones

Lecturer

Hilary Tapper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Working with Lights 10% Working with Lights
Creating Texture 15% Creating Texture
Making Materials 25% Making Materials
Setting the Scene 40% Setting the Scene
Theory Quizzes 10% Theory Quizzes

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

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  • PROD244-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025