The Little Big Planet - global illumination shading?

It's called deferred shading, or deferred lighting, or deferred rendering. I'm honestly not sure which of those is the accepted "correct" term. Google them.

I used to have a link to a presentation MM did over a year ago. They explained their rendering system, several approaches they took to getting their shadows, what works, and what didn't. In the end, the system is very specialized towards the type of game they made. Wish I could find the link. Maybe drop MM a line, asking where you might find it.

There's an interesting presentation by Alex Evans of Media Molecule in the "ACM Siggraph 2006" section here: http://ati.amd.com/developer/techpapers.html It's the course titled "Fast Approximations for Global Illumination on Dynamic Scenes"

edit: more specifically, the "view aligned irradiance" stuff is how LBP does it. Very suitable for a side-on "2.5D" game, how convenient! :)

Video presentation from Siggraph06 that I was probably thinking of. It's, um, a bit small. ;) Normally siggraph wants you to have an account... but the video link in the first post works, even if it doesn't when I find the paper via normal means.

via forum post on ps3forums

yes it is impressive + no its not deferred ...
cheers for the above links

Thanks all for the replies.

The technique shown in "Fast Approximations for Global Illumination on Dynamic Scenes" looks very good. Does anybody here already tried to implement something like that?

Thanks again.

Now that you have a name for a particular technique you're interested in, I suspect you might have more luck asking in the graphics subforum, there are all sorts of freakish boffins hanging around in there. If you do, it might be nice to cross-reference your post from here so that anyone who searches for this stuff in the future might find what they're looking for. :)