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Why is it still BLUE!!!
What I wouldn’t give for a one button lighting solution.
I have spent the last several months practicing my image and scene lighting in Blender. I had thought I was actually making progress. Okay, so maybe my lighting techniques still aren’t “wow” quality, but I no longer spend weeks trying to accidentally hit upon a reasonably [...]
Lighting Challenges: “Fruit Bowl”
My never ending quest to master lighting has finally led me to the Lighting Challenges over at CG Talk. Yeah, I know they are already up to challenge 16, but I wasn’t ready to participate when they started. And now I am, so I’m going to start from the beginning and just work my way [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Note to self: even simple scenes can take a LONG time to render !
Here recently, I came up with a great idea for an anniversary present for my husband. It was a very simple scene. Once rendered, I planned to print it out and put it into this really cool frame I had bought at a discount store. The frame had a recessed area with nine squares arranged [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )A Word on Lighting Rigs
One of my favorite places to gather blender knowledge is the blender wiki. Especially the User Manual. Our documentation team puts a lot of time and effort into keeping the user manual up to date. Since the wiki is always being improved upon, I wander over every few weeks and browse through the various sections. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lighting: “YIACBI” a case study
Like most art forms, lighting will always be an exercise in subjectivity, because what looks good to some, of course doesn’t look good to others. Then there is that whole mood/emotion of the image thing to also consider.
Keeping that in mind, as well as some of the lighting tips I learned from “Essential Blender”, I [...]
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