The Main Event

I've been teaching about Linear Workflow for years. This site was originally started as acompanion to my 2008 SIGGRAPH Autodesk MasterClass on the topic. I have also taught in my mental ray course on FXPHD (mry201). More info on when and where I teach this course over on my blog, mentalraytips.com.

As for info coming from me, the best bet right now is the FXPHD course. Eventually, I will put some version of that teaching material on this site. I simply havn't had time to do that yet. Some day... some day.... ;)

Links links links

Various links

• John Hable's EXCELLENT article on the topic. You can even search his FilmicGames.com blog about "Gamma" for more stuff.
• GPU Gems 3 explanation of the topic.
• A set of four videos explaining the workflow in Maya.
• Bill Spitzak's excellent intro, with images (notably the items beginning with "What" and "Why")
• A classic item from the XSI blog explaining why both output (image) and input (textures) needs gamma/reverse gamma respectively.

Some information from the mymentalray.com wiki:

• A very good introduction about gamma
• A rant I once posted about linear rendering (was originally reply to a forum post, hence the wording)

And when all else fails:

• Linear Workflow in Google ;)

Note: This is a stupid CAFEPRESS t-shirt, I don't make a dime. It's ugly too. The print quality kinda sucks. So don't actually buy it.