Interview with Troy Sobotka - Part 1

About this episode

In this episode, Paul Hanrahan interviews Troy Sobotka about visual cognition and image creation.

In this episode, I chat to Troy Sobotka who is a Vancouver based lighting, rendering and all-round image creation person. You may know him as the designer of the Agx render transform. We discuss the topic of Visual Cognition as it relates to how we make pictures. He shares a vast knowledge and collection of reference material on this topic. In past years he has written an online blog called the Hitchhikers Guide to Digital Color. I would highly recommend people to read it. We discuss: Download link for additional images and pre interview discussions: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaute657ixv9sfw9cyh3y/EP0005_TROY-SOBOKTA_PART_1.zip?rlkey=1q4v43fg59d1kbkfoj6vxr1pm&dl=0 Check out www.patreon.com/ColorMentor/ for colorist training. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People in this episode

Host: Paul Hanrahan

Guest: Troy Sobotka

Topics covered

• Visual Cognition
• Image Creation
• Lighting
• Rendering
• Digital Color

Keywords

• lighting
• rendering
• visual cognition
• image creation
• digital color

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Agx, Hitchhikers Guide to Digital Color, Patreon

Places: Vancouver

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