Cartoon lighting rig advice please!

#1

Hi all, I hope someone out there can give me some advice.

I’m trying to create a lighting rig that’ll give me a soft cartoon-feel to my enviornment. I’m trying to aim for something like this:

I’m trying to create some soft shadows and ambient occlusion and really let the radiosity help give that Pocoyo look.

I’ll be clear right now, setting up a decent lighting rig isn’t one of my strong points so any advice, however basic, is welcome.
I’m using 3DS Max 2010 and I have access to the default renderers - Scanline and Mental Ray.
If I’ve missed out some vital info, give me a shout.

Thanks in advance

#2

If you don’t want to use mentalray’s sky light option ,all you can use is Dome lighting technique for this kind of render.

#3

Cheers, I’ve actually been playing around with the radiosity plug in and I’ve been getting much better results now. I’ll research into dome lighting as well and see what I can get from that.

Thanks again.

#4

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