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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

CG Spectrum

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Lighting helps integrate various 3D elements (effects, props, characters, etc.) while also helping to set the mood or tone of a shot.

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Advanced API Performance: Async Compute and Overlap

Nvidia

Workload A Workload B Rational Math-limited compute Shadow map rasterization Shadow maps are usually graphics-pipe dominated (CROP, PROP, ZROP, VPC, RASTER, PD, VAF, and so on) and have little interference with heavy compute work. Ray tracing Shadow map rasterization RTCore / FP overlaps Graphics (ZROP/PROP/RASTER) datapath.