A good lighting setup is essential to effectively displaying your model. Without it your hard work might as well be for nothing. This tutorial takes a look at how to make a good three-point (+) lighting setup in Blender. The tutorial covers the different kinds of lights within Blender, the different configurations needed, and some general tips and tricks to creating a good setup within Blender

Highlights some of the techniques used to approximate a linear workflow in blender. While its mainly targeted at tackling several linux problems its main ideas still hold true for all platforms.

Achieving cool effects with simple mesh editing techniques. Creating halos and lensflares.

In this Blender tutorial, we’ll take a look at how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting. Applying a texture to a light is generally the same as applying a texture to an object. The only difference is that we’ll be projecting the texture into the scene based on the light settings.

Perfect for advertisements, logos and animations! This tutorial teaches you useful techniques such as modelling with curves, creating a glow effect and making a curve emit light.

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