This is a collection of Physically Based Rendering/Shading/Lighting material I’ve found scattered around the web. I believe it’s quite handy to have a list like this on various rendering topics, hopefully it can be of use for somebody! And if you find something I have missed, please let me know!

Books

• Physically Based Rendering by Matt Pharr & Greg Humphreys (Buy me one!)

Collections

• Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice - SIGGRAPH 2013 Course
• Physically-Based Shading Models in Film and Game Production - SIGGRAPH 2010 Course

Articles and Slides

Note: Some of the articles listed here are from the collections above. They are listed here again in case the collections are changed or removed.

• RYSE - The Transition to Physically Based Shading - Short article by Nicolas Schulz, Senior Rendering Engineer at Crytek.
• Background: Physics and Math of Shading - Introduction presentation slides from the SIGGRAPH 2013 course above, by the all mighty Naty Hoffman.
• Getting more physical in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 [Course notes] - Presentation slides from Dimitar Lazarov, Lead Graphics Engineer at Treyarch.
• Real Shading in Unreal Engine 4 [Course notes] - Presentation slides from Brian Karis, Senior Graphics Programmer at Epic Games.
• Crafting a Next-Gen Material Pipeline for The Order: 1886 [Course notes] - Beautiful presentation by David Neubelt and Matt Pettineo, two Graphics Programmers at Ready At Dawn Studios.
• Physically Based Shading Models in Film and Game Production - Slides [Course notes] - Practical implementation at tri-Ace by Yoshiharu Gotanda, Research and Development Department tri-Ace, Inc.
• Crafting Physically Motivated Shading Models for Game Development - Slides [Course notes] - Naty Hoffman.
• Terminators and Iron Men: Image-based lightingand physical shading at ILM - Slides [Course notes] - Information on how IBL and PBL was used at ILM in Iron Man and Terminator Salvation, by Ben Snow.
• #AltDevBlog: Shader Code for Physically Based Lighting - Actual shader implementation of PBR by Keith Judge, Unreal Engine 4 coder at PitbullStudio.
• CodeItNow: Physically-Based Shading - Blog discussion on PBS by Rory Driscoll, Lead Game Programmer at Sony Santa Monica.

Videos

• Physically Based Rendering for Artists - A great in depth video guide aimed at artists, by Andrew Maximov
• Unreal Engine 4 - Tech-Video zu Layered Materials - Tech talk about layered materials in UE4.
• Hideo Kojima GDC 2013 Panel - MGS5 & Fox Engine - Should have some information on PBS, but haven’t watched it yet.
• Lighting in Killzone: Shadow Fall - Presentation by Michał Drobot (Guerrilla Games), haven’t watched it yet.