Comments on: Tutorial: Lighting Rigs

By: Ephalim

Ephalim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:16:28 +0000

Great Stuff! Thanks!

Is there a rig for lighting large exterior scenes (e.g. architecture viz)?

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:01:29 +0000

There's a whole section in the wiki user manual on lighting http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Manual between modeling and materials, which is where it is best introduced during the animation workflow. (It is revisited after texturing as part of rendering as well).

There are also lighting tutorials http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials. All links provided by Hohrer above have been included. Enjoy!

Also, I should note that in the .blend file, the camera is constrained to look at an empty, which is in the center. Together with the path, which is on the unselected layer, animating frames 1-100 provides a turntable walkaround of the model in the center,

By: mike pan

mike pan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:16:10 +0000

Good job, i agree that too many artists don't pay enough attention to lighting.

By: pictorali

pictorali — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:02:03 +0000

A very useful tutorial! Thanks.

By: Höhrer

Höhrer — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:22:14 +0000

It would be a shame to remove/ignore them, but they need some clean-up and a clean integration into the manual .. as the rest of them. Some sort of "lighting" overview page listing all existing lighting info would be a nice thigh :) Dunno about the BSOD stuff … it's more of an self-contained book. I'm sure some of it can be referred to or even included in the manual as well. I think we should discuss this in the wiki/forum though.

Werner

By: Roger Wickes

Roger Wickes — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:17:32 +0000

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I apologize for stilting the backlight in the three point rig, and have added it to the wiki article. I was too wrapped up in studio green-screen/backdrop and stage lighting, but thanks for pointing out my oversight.

Hohrer: are those PartV pages going to be converted and integrated into the wiki table of contents, as well as the BSOD pages?

By: Höhrer

Höhrer — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:03:12 +0000

Since these where not posted here yet, I'll just post the rest of the
lighting-related wiki pages:

mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Lighting
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartV/Three_Point_Light
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartV/Pseudo_Area_Light
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Ambient_Light
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Ambient_Occlusion
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Lighting/Light_Concepts
mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Lighting/Spots_vs_Ambient_Occlusion

Werner

PS: Dammit, I hope this try (the 5. so far) to post it will finally work. sorry for the missing http:// in front of the links

By: Pascal

Pascal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:19:39 +0000

Like Bart Robinson I have to disagree with your 3-points light rig definition and setup.
Check this link to experiment with a more academic definition. http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/three-point/simulator.html

By: Phrangkk

Phrangkk — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:13:38 +0000

Great addition to the Wiki!
But I think there needs to be a change to the 3 point setup.
All the 3 point lighting I have seen has the third light behind the subject.
This helps to separate the subject from the background.
just my 2 cents.

By: Bart Robinson

Bart Robinson — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:49:45 +0000

I'm really happy to see someone taking the time to write a nice tutorial and examples for lighting in Blender. I need to disagree with the definition and layout of Three Point Lighting though. You might do better to reference Wikipedia for this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_lighting Three Point Lighting is, almost universally, defined as a Key Light, Fill Light, and a Back (or hair, or rim) Light. The Back Light is designed to be behind the subject and create a lit edge on the subject to separate it from the background.