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Unit: Rendering

About this unit

“Rendering” is the final process of a movie, when the technical directors at Pixar calculate the color of every pixel in every frame of every shot in the film. If that sounds incredibly time-consuming, it is! But Pixar gets help from some mathematical equations.

Rendering 101

Discover the basics behind the rendering equation. This lesson takes 35-40 minutes to complete.

Learn

Start here!
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Introduction to rendering
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1. What is ray tracing?
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2. Light reflection
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3. Light rays
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4. Rendering Mike Wazowski
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Getting to know Susan Fong
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Practice

Ray tracing
7 questions
Matching properties of lighting
7 questions
Light rays
7 questions

Mathematics of rendering

Explore the most fundamental calculation a ray tracer does: line-plane intersection in 2D and 3D. This lesson involves solving systems of equations and takes at least 60 minutes to complete.