Show off your favorite piece of lighting

#41

here is mine, rendered in brazil r/s.

#42

the level of work here is too high, y need more hours to practice :smiley:

#43

Hmm… if you speak about my work, i must say these are some tests to render fast the indoor scences in brazil. many people interested on speed and quality and they request a tutorial
about it.don’t know whats wrong in your eyes. let me know.thanks.

#44

Very very strong work indeed IMHO,

As a CG lighting apprentice, I have some questions…

-What are the good step to learn and practice CG lighting?

-Is it usual for you to do some post-process to your images in Photoshop-like app, or do you show it straight out the render app?

-What is the most challenging context for CG lighting, in a general way? Outdoor, Indoor, etc?

-Any must-have books? Is Photography books are useful?

thxs

#45

I did this image as a tribute to the heroes of 911 for my 2001 Christmas card.

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#46

Some great shots everyone! Here’s some stuff I’ll throw in. All done in the standard max render. Lots of bounce light faking.

I had lots of fun lighting this guy:

I had an unhealty obsession with folesent lights for awhile. I really liked the sick stark mood they gave off. Here’s one where I was trying to achive the same mood that they gave me. All standard max render with lots of post work to the colors in PS.

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More bounce light faking practice:

I hope you like…

#47

heres some stuff Ive done:

Quictime VR room
http://myweb.cableone.net/amylenhart/images/trend4.mov

Sorry for the overkill :love:

#48

Andrew W & Percy Daman…Your work is unreal. Not only the lighting, but the images and renderings complete the work brilliantly

#49

Thanks jophus! Just representin all of us that dont do this for a living yet :slight_smile: Enjoyed looking at all of your guy’s works.

#50

PercyDaman: If you don’t mind, I would love to know your lighting setup for this image that you created, do you mind sharing it?

#51

sure no problem. i used vray so I put large area lights at all the windows set to really low multipliers. Theres a direct light for the sun. Then I played with exposure settings until I liked how it looked.

#52

Of course…Vray…i have to look into getting it. All nice interior renders that i see are rendered using Vray. I’m using Max6 and messing around with skylights and lighttracer, but i can’t seem to get my lighting right.

#53

I haven’t used it, but I dont think its all that different. Just the way you have to approach it. Oh and speed of course. :thumbsup:

#54

Another hobbyist work, using freeware tools. I guess there is not much else to say. Wings3D is a polygon modeller with the most intuitive interface I ever tried. Feels simply natural. Rendered with POV-Ray, for which I have a great affection and long time experience.

#55

wow very nice work, would be great even if it was rendered with a multi thousand dollar package…

#56

A little image where I tried to work the same way I do in a studio.
Maya Software render

Salute!
Arturo Chomyszyn

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#57

Hello. I must say there is some really nice work being shown on this thread. I am going to tentatively put forth a few shots from one of my favorite projects. Just to see what comes back. I come from a stage lighting background, and I’ve been trying to work with that style of lighting in 3D, but man is it a whole other world in there. As I’m sure you all know. Anyway, enough blathering, here be my tentative first entry to this forum:

#58

I think this is my best one in lighting. Great images you have posted here.

#59

Did you use Vray for your renderer? Nice interior scene, but i noticed that the chair seems a little small compared to some of the other items on the room and why is there a cabinet right in the middle of an opening?

#60

jophus14 - no I used mental ray. It is quite a old image and now Im using Brazil. And the chair I think you are right - I realized it only now. Noone noticed this befor. The cabinet is there for zoning the space between corridor and living room.