CG Light Series #2 - Lights Setup

[@NewPlastic]

I just noticed a small mistake when talking about Shadow Quality at 08:09 - Soft Shadows are achieved by a light source that's large and/or *CLOSER* to the subject. Hard Shadows are achieved by a light source that's small and/or *FURTHER* from the subject.

[@АнастасияМазуровская-с9г]

Absolutely incredible and useful series. It provides much more amazing information than one can get on some paid courses. Thank you a lot!

[@giorgiomarangolo]

Man what you did with this series is awesome. This is way better than a paid 3d masterclass or 3d school courses. One of the best 3d channels on youtube!

[@NewPlastic]

Ain't nothing like free knowledge to help people learn!

[@allexrain]

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[@NewPlastic]

You know it! New one coming very soon!

[@javalijavardo5411]

You really nailed the Rembrandt light at 11:05

[@NewPlastic]

Yeah it's beautiful right? So simple and effective.

[@PabloLucio]

I think I can do a pretty accurate impression of your "hey, this is guy from New Plastic", heard it a lot of times! Thanks for these series of tutorials. Keep it up!

[@NewPlastic]

Haha holy shit are you Guy from New Plastic I love your channel

[@viero313]

AMAAAAZING VIDEO man!! Gold knowledge

[@NewPlastic]

Hell yeah dude!

[@8thballondor]

Amazing series, thanks for the great content. Those cinematography YT channels you recommended are so good.

[@NewPlastic]

They're amazing dude! Studio Binder's videos are a weekly watch for me. Just watched their video on "Nope" and realized there's so much CGI in it!

[@tarineccleston1166]

Hey just wanted to say that I love the quality of your videos and how engaging they are! A lot of the advice comes from first principals which is great. It's really helpful for someone like me who has come back to CGI after a long hiatus :)

[@NewPlastic]

So excited to hear this Tarin! Hopefully you're back with lots of rekindled inspiration!

[@TheHumanAnonymous]

I absolutely love all your videos man, quickly became one of my favorite 3D tutorial channels. Perfectly in-depth without dragging on too long, and super knowledgeable. Keep up the great work King

[@NewPlastic]

Absolutely my pleasure! Really glad to know this

[@ArgoBeats]

8:45 dope

[@NewPlastic]

Yes love hard lighting!

[@ArgoBeats]

@@NewPlastic me too, great work man

[@normalrender]

These videos are so helpful for me switching from standard renderer to octane! I have a question: Where do you get the human models you use?

[@NewPlastic]

That's great to hear! Most of the models I use are models I bought from the Daz store. I had a period where I had a few projects that required good human models and I just bought a bunch of really high quality ones, so I just keep using them

[@yebutonu]

Looking forward to #3 and onward. I think I'm already familiar with the basics of #1 and #2, but I'd be interested in seeing more complex light setups. Do you ever build multiple 2/3/4-point light setups for multiple subjects in complex scenes using light-linking? Perhaps it isn't "realistic", but I feel it's another advantage we have in 3D

[@NewPlastic]

Yes I'll be getting into more extensive and specific light usage to get different effects. I'll probably touch on light-linking but honestly i really barely use it. I just usually find a way to get the lighting to work, especially using negative fills and stuff like that. The main problem with disabling an object from getting lit up is that it sometimes ends up looking weird because the eye kinda recognizes the unrealistic way the light doesnt catch on that specific object, even tho it should if you didnt disable the light affecting it. But yeah, I do find rare uses for it and I'll incorporate in a tutorial.

[@yebutonu]

@@NewPlastic I think I take advantage of it generally for giving my characters in a scene their own particular low-powered lights to accentuate things. Though with respect to realism I totally agree with you. I'm keen to see more advanced light setups, maybe even moving lights that are constraint to certain animations? :)

[@simonverrill]

Killer video man. Really enjoying this series. Makes me want to jump back on my machine and create. Keep it up

[@NewPlastic]

That;s incredible dude that's all I want!

[@prettygrotesk254]

this has leveled me up so much. notice me senpai.

[@NewPlastic]

It levels me up too!

[@javiertoscano]

It's a real "Condensed Master", I want my certified degree..... You´re great, Sensei. As always ;)

[@NewPlastic]

Haha no degrees needed here just experience and creativity.

[@gustavoferreira2951]

You know you the best!

[@NewPlastic]

You the best Gustavo!

[@adhamalasad2896]

your content helped me a lot thank you for the awesome work

[@NewPlastic]

My pleausre dude! Happy to hear that!

[@lucasschafer8323]

just thank you

[@NewPlastic]

Aye just you're welcome!

[@aspizak]

Great suff, always. Best wishes,A.

[@NewPlastic]

My man Adam, thank you boss. Love your work and appreciate your support.

[@magice0123]

great tutorial man keep the good work, also can you do a hair tutorial normal hairstyling and stuff thanks again for the tutorial

[@NewPlastic]

I have a tutorial series on Afro Textured hair styles. I'll probably go back to making more diverse hair styling tutorials, I just had to stylize some hair for a project and it was hella fun but also such a headache lol

[@ZxSilverAngelxZ]

You are legend!

[@NewPlastic]

You are!

[@musecreation1084]

Amazing thank you

[@NewPlastic]

[@edrevvvv]

the triangle thing on the cheek left me speechless WTF

[@NewPlastic]

Haha yeah so simple and cool

[@danimator8909]

Love it

[@NewPlastic]

[@ruicarneiro1640]

Im just learning 3D and my mac can only run Corona render. What you show here can be replicated in Corona too?

[@NewPlastic]

Yessir! This is a general approach to setting up your lights that you can use in any engine

[@ruicarneiro1640]

@@NewPlastic Perfect, thank you so much! Keep up the phenomenal work, your videos are a must for every 3D artist.

[@NewPlastic]

@@ruicarneiro1640 I know it's a year later but just wanted to say thank you for the kind words! Have you purchased a new computer yet? :)

[@ganeshanvekar5009]

I have a question, I don't have octane instead I'm learning redshift so are these principles and techniques still be applicable in redshift? And so far Loving these tutorials looking forward to more.

[@brobpony4792]

as both a redshift and octane user i can say that yes, lighting principles work with any renderer. however, you might have to tweak some things; for example, with rs you can change the spread of an area light rather than just scaling the area light up or down (octane has no spread option in its area lights)

[@raghavdeshmukh8460]

@@brobpony4792 is scaling in octane exactly similar to spread in redshift ?

[@ganeshanvekar5009]

@@brobpony4792 And can I able get the same result as from the video by using reshift?

[@brobpony4792]

@@raghavdeshmukh8460 they do the same thing, tho you can also scale area lights in redshift too

[@brobpony4792]

@@ganeshanvekar5009 you can get similar results (maybe 80% - 90%), as to exactly the same, probably, you'll have to test and play around a lot with light power and color grading as allr enderes treat light and colors slightly differnetly.

[@luiszarzoza3762]

nice! :D

[@NewPlastic]

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[@Glyphraider]

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