Lighting presets for artists and dummies

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• dot_bat Posts: 373

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  thanx for files will check them out
• Kevin Sanderson Posts: 1,643

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  Nice looking sunlight! I'll have to check it out. I'm planning on giving your Interior Lighting package a whirl over the next few days. I bought it a while ago but haven't used it yet. Here's the link if anyone's curious:

  http://www.daz3d.com/lighting-preset-for-interior-visualization
• Dartanbeck Posts: 21,210

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  How very cool!
  Lighting is very powerful in Carrara - as in any visual render app.
  Any help to those new to the art is a big boon, and all of us, who have been at it forever, still enjoy picking up new tips, techniques and ideas. Thanks a bunch, magaremoto!
  Ciao!
• Dartanbeck Posts: 21,210

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  Added link to this thread to the Carrara Information Manual under Forum Help Links in the Lighting section.
• Headwax Posts: 9,922

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  thanks margaremoto, very kind, am looking forward to looking through this!!

  in addition I'd highly recommend this book by Gurney http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719

  not just for painters - it will explain why shadows on a flat surface such as the ground have a blue tinge on sunny days and why things like eaves have a brown or green tinge in their shadows - it'as all about reflected light of course and the mimicking of reality
• magaremoto Posts: 1,226

  March 2013 edited March 2013

  thank you all,
  Kevin I'm going to approach a new lighting for interiors set ASAP, but as you know good shaders make the difference and actually I don't have a good scene to work on and try out hyper realism. I think carrara can render as lux does, as pointed out by DB in another thread, but the good and the bad in Carrara is being essentially a tool for artists and you have to work hard on lights and materials for results comparable to unbiased engines.
  There should be an abacus of materials good for all light conditions. I am going to put on the web some materials prepared for my lighting rigs, a portal would be the best solution for anyone who wants to contribute.

  Post edited by magaremoto on March 2013
• magaremoto Posts: 1,226

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  head wax said:

  thanks margaremoto, very kind, am looking forward to looking through this!!

  in addition I'd highly recommend this book by Gurney http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719

  not just for painters - it will explain why shadows on a flat surface such as the ground have a blue tinge on sunny days and why things like eaves have a brown or green tinge in their shadows - it'as all about reflected light of course and the mimicking of reality

  thank you head wax, looks great to understand the basics. well done
• Headwax Posts: 9,922

  March 2013 edited December 1969

  hey, I bought it last year and gave it a cursory glance - and put it back on the shelf because I am not a realist painter - but recently I have been tramsposing my digital illustrations to canvas - well trying to - and it's a great help - because if some parameter of lighting is not there , then I know what it should look like! The guy obviously has a lot of experience with digital work - he seems to be primarily a plein air painter, but he let's slip a few things, like subsurface scattering and occculison shadows which suggest he knows more about 3d than he would like to let on -

  thanks again for going to the trouble to get those lighting rigs and documentation happening!