An in-depth look at the techniques used to light and render Tokyo in "Cars 2".

Lighting Metro City at night required solving the lighting challenge known as the "many lights" problem. This sketch describes how the lighting department solved this challenge.

A technical and production-oriented talk describing the tile-based lighting architecture and deferred rendering optimizations developed to achieve a visual target with hundreds of real-time lights per scene for Need for Speed: The Run at 30 frames per second on PlayStation3.

Have you ever wanted to make a videogame? This session shows how to build a small level in the freely available CryENGINE 3 SDK. Topics include: world building and tools (FlowGraph, CryENGINE's visual scripting language, and Trackview, the camera sequencing and directing tools). In less than an hour, attendees create their own playable video games.

The GigaPan system of hardware, image-processing software, and a web application supports the capture, creation, and presentation of gigapixel images. In this workshop, attendees participate in creating a GigaPan image from start to finish: scouting a shooting location near the conference center, setting up the GigaPan robot, taking the source images, stitching these images into a GigaPan, uploading to a web site, and annotating the final GigaPan. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras for use with the GigaPan robot, but a limited number of digital cameras will be provided.

How to rig, skin, and export a character for CryENGINE 3. Topics include physics setup, building characters from many skinned meshes, and creating Character Definitions and Character Parameter files. These rigging basics are applicable to most run-time game engines.

In this introduction to Python, a powerful scripting language used by many 3D applications, attendees learn the basics and explore small example scenarios gleaned from actual game and film productions. The sessions are taught in a way that should empower attendees to immediately begin creating time-saving python scripts and applications.

This system captures and stitches gigapixel-scale time-lapse imagery and explores the resulting gigapixel-scale video in four dimensions: 2D translation, zoom, and time. Workshop topics include: how to author content, how to explore, and how to define “warps” through gigapixel video and render them into standard, linear video.

This is a hands-on workshop on digital fine art creation and perfecting your final print.

Stephen Burns, the author of CS5 Trickery & FX takes you on a journey of creative possibilities to fine art creation. He shares digital creative techniques and how to optimize your imagery for successful final output. Jack Duganne, the originator of the printmaking term giclée, summarizes the process of digitally printing your final version.

Did you ever dream of showing your fashion design on a body of your own creation on the fashion runway? In this workshop, attendees learn how to use the Digital Clothing Suite's human character and pattern data to seam patterns, simulate garment draping, apply and manipulate images to generate their own textile designs, and save the final result into an animation clip. The clips are shown in The Studio, where attendees vote on their favorite designs. The best designer receives a six-month free trial of the Digital Clothing Suite.

Thomas Roussel from Pixologic presents a hands-on interactive workshop showing how digital sculpting with ZBrush can change your modeling and concept pipeline.

This workshop is a sequel to Creation of Your Own Digital Fashion Show. Advanced topics include: how to create a custom body; edit the patterns; create and apply darts, gathers, and pleats to the patterns; render and create high-resolution images; and import and export body and clothing data between Maya and the Digital Clothing Suite. Finished animations are shown in The Studio, where attendees vote on their favorite designs. The best designer receives a six-month free trial of the Digital Clothing Suite.

An overview of the new functionality and improvements in the Rhinoceros 5.0 update.

Tokyo at night is one of the world's most beautiful locations. The architecture combined with a massive quantity of illuminated signs creates a visual complexity rarely seen elsewhere. The challenge was to recreate the emotional impact and excitement of downtown Tokyo but maintain the visual style of "Cars 2".