Stephen Hill

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

Oooh, new glints paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025: perso.telecom-paristech.fr/boubek/paper...

Welcome to the Rebel Hideout: ILM’s Employee-made ‘Star Wars’ Gathering Place Learn the inspiring story of a group of dedicated ILM and Lucasfilm employees who turned their dreams into a reality....

Some more on the making of our ILM Rebel Hideout. www.ilm.com/rebel-hideou...

I'm only seeing "Real-Time Live!" (which I'll add a link to):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...

SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.

The EON talk slides are now online: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

I3D 2025 Papers Session 5 - Rendering YouTube video by I3D Symposium

The papers session on Rendering is now available! youtu.be/Jj80CZ_1sMY
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You madman!

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Lambert model (left), the classic “qualitative” Oren–Nayar QON model (center), and our new EON model (right), all at maximal roughness and the same single-scattering albedo color. The top and bottom rows show front and side-lit cases respectively. The EON model compensates for the energy loss of the QON model, producing similar brightness to the Lambert model combined with the characteristic “flattening” and enhanced backscattering of the Oren–Nayar model.

EON: A practical energy-preserving rough diffuse BRDF; by Portsmouth, Kutz, and Hill. www.jcgt.org/published/00...