In this brief tutorial, we'll look at techniques for illuminating a sci-fi scene at night. Download the starting scene and follow along as we use area lights to increase realism dramatically!
Lighting
Intermediate mental ray Lighting
This extended tutorial shows you how I lit an interior office scene using mental ray area lights and Sun & Sky.
Introductory mental ray Lighting
This is a basic tutorial showing you how to get started with mental ray area lights. It really adds a new level of realism to your renders.
Making of Veggie Pirates
Hi, my name is Gaurav Mohan and in this tutorial I will go over the techniques I used in creating my entry 'Veggie Pirates' for the CGArena Toon challenge. T...
Studio Lighting in Vray
In this tutorial I will tell you the method of studio lighting. For the rendering I used Vray 1.5rc3, the latest version of the program. This famous chair ca...
Making of The final Warning
The character was made for the Stylized Challenges #016: Creatures of Legend - Dragons at Threedy.com. After several failed sketches I came up with a roguish...
Making of Play
The main inspiration behind Play was our living room wallpaper. I have a very similar bear sitting on top of a CD rack in front of the wallpaper, so I though...
Making of Beanpod Blooming
Wang Xiaoyu walks us through the creation of this piece going over tips for creating eyes and shaders
Making of Quiet Room
Hi everyone, in this making of article I am going to show the general process that I went through to create the Quiet Room. I used Autodesk Maya to model all...
Lighting and Materials in 3DS Max
These video tutorials is created by artist Giorgio Luciano in 3ds max. These tutorials will throw light from basic settings of Lighting and Materials to fina...
Making of Mr Froggy
Mister Froggy started, as most of my ideas do, with a few simple sketches (Fig.01). At first Froggy wasn't a frog; I don't know exactly what he was. Some sor...
Fantasy Letter
This tutorial focuses on heavy texturing now, turning a simple flat plane with a bunch of polygons into an old piece of paper with handwriting on it. 50% of ...
Making of the Game
In this making-of documentary we will illustrate the laborious process of creating the Perry Rhodan game. Locked into dark rooms filled with computers, a gro...
Making of the Rider
This is the 5th challenge that I joined and my first artwork which was a grand winner. I am really happy to say that with all the efforts and hard work I did...
Making of The Two Mighty Kings
My latest work, The Two Mighty Kings, was created for CGSociety's 23rd challenge, Steampunk Legends and Myths. The project took me a little bit less than two...