About this episode

The episode features an interview with Paul Debevec discussing advancements in lighting technology for visual effects.

We talk with Academy Technical Achievement Award recipient Paul Debevec about HDR image-based lighting, Fiat Lux, virtual production, NeRFs, 3DGS, machine learning, and why now is a great time to do research.

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike Seymour, John Montgomery

Guest: Paul Debevec

Topics covered

• VFX
• lighting
• HDR
• virtual production
• machine learning
• research

Keywords

• HDR
• image-based lighting
• virtual production
• NeRFs
• 3DGS
• machine learning
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Academy, NeRFs, 3DGS, machine learning

Books & works: Fiat Lux

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