Session 3: Shaders and Lighting Setups Revisited

 

This session is a recap of our first two sessions, filling in the blanks to provide a complete lighting workflow. To do this we will revisit our still life and focus on the example of the orange.

• Homework review
• Recap on Materials, Textures
• Hypershade and methods of assigning materials

Step-by-step lighting discussion: Orange-HiddenLights.ma

• Key light: specular turned off
• Spec light: emits only spec (more control for brighter highlight; by not adjusting spec in the shader we can still have soft spec in the fill light)
• Slash light: creates a long, narrow slash to lead the eye in the composition; uses barn doors to shape the light
  
• Fill light adds blue ambience
• Rim Light: creates a thin bright outline around the object. Should be behind the object from the camera; needs to cast shadows; light-link to the object. Easiest to set up from the camera's POV.
• Extra Fills
• Kicker: thicker rim lights are called kick lights. Used to bring a highlight to the shadow side.
• Bounce light: low light, colored like the fabric below the orange, emits only diffuse.
  

Time permitting:

• Render settings cont'd
  
• Raytrace shadows
• IPR
• Camera settings
  

Homework: 

• Using Orange-Start.ma, practice trying to match the MatchMe.iff image in the /images folder (optional but advised)
  
• Revisit the fruit bowl with renewed vigor

Files can be downloaded here (for 90 days):
day3.zip