My work of the last years

[AJ]

Some excpetionally nice work! :applause:

Welcome to the board, and have some stars from me :D

[A MacVey]

I have gone over you sentinal(sp? sorry) tutorial figuring out how to modify it to my own models and your work is out standing. I am glad that there are some great Electric Image users out there(I am a user my self) and I want to see more, and more tutorials! :p If you could post giving tips on the Dvgarage tutorial that would rock! :buttrock:

[Eterea]

Thanks for your kind words.
You make me so happy :-)
Best regards.

[hypercube]

Fantastic stuff. Great quality to the images, and attention to lighting, mood, and details. Like the way each is broken down and shown in closeup, the ideas and concepts that went in to it, that's always great to see.

Look forward to more in the future! :thumbsup:

[Phobia4]

wow :impressed

some very nice stuff you got there!! That spanish breakfast image is awesome! I like all de progress shots a lot too.

great work :thumbsup:

[trask]

i absolutely love your web design!

(and of course the 3d ;) )

[jjburton]

Nice site design, great work. Keep it up!

[katlis]

Wow! I wish I could give you 6 stars! :thumbsup:

Awesome stuff... your textures are incredible.

[winberg]

Really great work...

You show an eye for materials and lightning not found very often...


-Tom

[Solesurvivor]

very nice site design , and awesome models, :buttrock: it rocks :buttrock:

[Machismo]

My god cristobal - you are at god a lighting and texturing. that is some of the most amazing lighting scenes i have seen.

excellent work :drool:

it would be really nice if you could share some of your lighting techniques with us on this board :D

_gg:thumbsup:

[xynaria]

HMMNNNN nice work put together on a vrey nice site. If you aren't already aware of it.. you might take some pleasure looking at the work of Joseph Cornell (not cg... boxes in the main. ) :)

[Eterea]

Thanks another time for all your kind words.
Now I am working in another futuristic car, and after that I hope to have time to make another tutorial.

I want to make a lighting tutorial in the future too. A generic tutorial if possible, independent of software. But the TIME is so short...

Anyway here are some small tips I use:

LIGHTING:

— Ever use a lot of lights, with different colors and values.
— If I use 1 warm main light, I put 1 or 2 cold ones in the opposite direction.
— Use complementary color lights to enhance your escene (like impresionist painters)
(Orange - Purple), (Red - Cyan), (Yellow - Blue), (Magenta - Green)
— Use dropoff/attenuation.
— Be carefull not to overexpose your scene: use small values.
— Use Selection Sets to allow certain lights affect only to certain objects.
— Tests, test, and more tests :-)


SHADOWS:

I like to use this small tip:

1. I place one main light <L> WITHOUT shadows.
2. In the same or another location I place another light <S1> WITH shadow and value <+1> (for example)
3. In the exact same location than <S1> I place a third light <S2> WITHOUT shadow and value <-1>

Light <S2> cancel <S1> ligthing, and we obtain only SHADOW.
Light <L> is the unique light, and, the most important: lights and shadows can be INDEPENDENTS.

I can add more strategic only-shadows with different softness (to imitate Global Iluminacion or Radiosity effects) to enhance the scene without increment general lighting.

I don´t know other softwares apart from ElectricImage Universe (only a bit of Cinema 4D), but with these kind of methods you can achieve great effects, with great control, using Phong renders. I like speed, so I can experiment and do a large number of test renders. I suppose these tips can be translated to another softwares.

Visit this link to see some visual explanations of this concepts:

http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/breakfast_09.htm


POSTPRODUCTION:

Finally you can enhance your lighting applying some easy tips in Photoshop or AfterEffects.

Please: visit this link to see this tip:
http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/breakfast_11.htm

I hope you find these tips usefull.
Best regards.

[Machismo]

thank you for taking the time to answer my question cristobal. i will keep these in mind for my current project :beer:

cheers and keep up the good work :thumbsup:

[pascal_blanche]

congrats for such professionnal work! I looove your rendering touch, really close to illustrative mood... keep it up, and thx for sharing!:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Rivendale]

Great stuff!! Now I feel inspired, thanks

[stephen2002]

a lot of your stuff is amazing. Keep up the good work.

[Aura]

:bounce: Some nice works.
Hope to see more larger pics!

[jason-slab]

wow- i love the your lighting
some really awsome work!!!! including your website :)

[Eterea]

Wow!

I just come back from a 3 days trip and I have seen you great feedback and the large amount of visits to my page and private mails... :-)

Thanks another time for you kind words.

Pascal: you make me very happy with your comments. I'm a great admirer of your work.

Aura: you can see more larger pics on my site ;-)

Best regards.

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