What books should 3d artist read about lightning and anatomy?

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What books 3d artist should read about lightning and anatomy?

One of my weaknesses is light in scenes and I heard that there are good standards and techniques. Are there good books about it?

I also wanted to try myself in character creation, what good books can I read about anatomy? However I heard books that aiming at 3d artist are not good for some reason.

Please help.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Regarding anatomy, most attempts to make it for just a 3D artist audience is A. limiting the amountt of money you can make and B. it's not just applicable to 3D or even just a few areas of art, etc.

I personally recommend Figure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis.  Something tells me you knowing where muscles insert and originate will help you a lot less than knowing what bony landmarks or medium forms are on the human body.

PixelMasher

Color and Light by James Gurney is essential reading for anyone interested in lighting.

sacboi

Was kindly referred too by a friend, since my technical lighting knowledge as a hardsurface modeller is less than stellar, well non existent really... : /

Digital Lighting & Rendering: Third Edition by Jeremy Birn

...and some top picks by Scott Eaton, an artistic idol of mine.

Anatomy Books – Reviews and Recommendations  

Eric Chadwick

Some more goodies here

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Lighting

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Anatomy_Reference

Kwramm

Some lighting books I've been consulting for the lighting training I'm creating:

* Digital Lighting and Rendering (Birn)

* Placing Shadows (Chuck Gloman) - this is about real lighting for film / photography. Since our goal is to replicate real-world lighting, it makes sense to understand how real-world light sources work. Grab it cheap if you can. i

* Lighting for Visual Artists (Richard Yot)

* Any book about Photography that has a section on lighting, and even better, an explanation about lenses as many post-fx and light fx that we try to emulate in engine has their source in real world interaction between light and the camera's lens (chromatic abberation, lens flares, etc.). I usually fall back to my copy of "Photography" (barbara London, John Upton) from college days.

* For hard core tech stuff: Real-time Lighting and Rendering 4th ed (Moller Akenine et al)