How to Create a Night Scene | Blender 2.8 | Lighting

[@zoobloo]

This is the exact tutorial I was looking for! I was struggling to understand eevee lighting lol btw your voice is so relaxing you're like the bob ross of motion graphics

[@grabbitt]

thanks :)

[@maryamsamadi4714]

I managed to complete this fascinating scene and learned loads of things. Thank you very much Grant!

[@deanerhockings-reptilianhu8701]

Phew! Just got the boat bobbing up and down nicely and really looking forward to creating the final touches including this awesome night time view. But I'm also noticing all the lovely new touches you've been adding! The little starfish on the rock, the stool and the telescope. Just love it and it's given me confidence to attempt a few little personalised assets of my own. This tutorial series has to be one of the most rewarding and informative ones I've ever done.

[@SNACKito]

Fantastic! The whole Sea Shack series was very informative and I created a fantastic version of this shack *thanks to you*. Thanks for sharing and please dont stop doing these videos!

[@comptonking4005]

For the lights i just parent my light directly to the bones. i selected the light first and then the bones and pressed "Ctrl P" and selected "bone"

[@bastian6173]

Can't believe I have made it through this series! I learnt so much and I created some animated jellyfish as well. I hope some day you make it to 1m+ Subs, Grant. You deserve it.

[@jeffg4686]

Wow, dramatic different from the daytime scene. Very cool seeing the same scene have such a different mood.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Holzlowski]

Grant Abbitt. I love u so much

[@crackedteeth1700]

thank you man i finally finished this i gave up like 1 month ago and this past few days i've came back to work on this again and i finally made it i learned so much through this course. big thanks to you mr grant abbit :D

[@ultramarinebicycle]

Love these low poly tuts. Hope you'll continue making them.

[@grabbitt]

yes I will do :)

[@cpitanker7031]

That is truly beautiful, your voice is nice and you keep the tutorial interesting! I'm glad I found this channel, now going to watch your other videos! :)

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@artemkay6643]

Thank you for this series, Grant. The pace is perfect and stressing important details really helps to remember them. Loved the long format with a clear topic in every part too. Good luck with the channel, mate!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Darkrikou62]

Thank you for Grant Abbitt! It's great but when I render image, I still have the blue environnement from previous video and not a black screen. In order to have the black screen follow the render with background image tuto and in compositing add a new color black.

[@fsr1895]

thanks a lot for this free course. you have no idea how happy I am

[@bridydone9252]

Great video. Especially making a light that moves with the object.

[@majjood02]

I learned A LOT from this tutorial series Thank you very much Grant! You are an excellent teacher!

[@sigyloth9761]

i just wanna say thank you Grant you helped me alot you a great teacher.

[@manavnayyar]

Finally finished this tutorial as well! Really enjoyed it and learned so much! Thank you so much Sir!

[@lr723]

Got it - Blender here I come. Thank you Grant, great series . On another note: • Parent Light to Bone: in Object mode select the light - Shift select the bone (the parent to be) - go in Pose mode - select the bone segment to parent to - Ctrl+P to parent the bone - choose Bone in the pop-up. That's it. Hope it helps. Credits to Rant13 at BlenderArtists.org - post from June 2010. Works in Blender 2.82.7

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@serjeelranjan8345]

Damn dude. Lot of Hardwork on sea shack scene.

[@iam.2022]

Grant, this is so beautiful, thank you for all your teachings!!!

[@marvelouswalrus949]

How On Earth Can Anybody Be This Productive?!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks:)

[@ratzabur]

Can't keep up as well, but I love it!

[@jeroenbakker1879]

Passion.

[@cris_dias_]

To this day this tutorial is sooo powerful and helpful, I learned A LOT with this tutorial and the well tutorial, THANK YOU VERY MUCH I really apreciate it and am really happy that there are actually teaching tutorials like yours here on youtube so everyone can have the opportunity to learn

[@subhajitdutta4106]

Hi sir,that is looking awesome...and it gives my eyes peace...Great work...😀

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@mahalwijetunge1073]

Ok you need like 1 million Subs!!!! Thank you So much. I find your teaching technique so comprehendible. Much love from a tiny Island called Sri Lanka.

[@grabbitt]

Thank you! 😃

[@BeavPlays]

Sounds like a great opportunity to make the next step be a day/night cycle animation! :D

[@grabbitt]

you not the first to suggest that maybe i'll give it a go at some point :)

[@hanlinnzaw4022]

Thanks, Grant. I need it. Lightning for night scene render. I find it difficult when it comes to night scene lighting but this helps a lot.

[@digital_down]

This is awesome. My night time scene was really lacking and these tips transformed it into something useful.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@adorno2596]

I just finished this playlist course. It is a complete course which teach you all basic functionalities to work with Blender. Thanks again for sharing great content on KZbin. Ps: English isn't my first language.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@SoultyRagevin]

I've been learning 3D through your videos. Thank you so much for your tutorials and for reminding us all of the important details/shortcuts every now and then. Really helpful to someone as slow as me.

[@corimyers4985]

I've been working on this all week after seeing someone else do this tutorial on Reddit. I have avoided these because my love is fashion art, and I can only find tutorials on swords and dragons 90% of the time. And the fashion industry is BEGGING for Blender stuff especially during COVID ( I know this because one of my friends is a wedding dress designer and has been in a panic, asking me if I can recreate her dresses and animate them. I could create them, not animate them..not until now thanks to Grants Tutorials). I just haven't been able to find tutorials on what I need. I subbed to you long ago, but hadn't really looked until now. I thought, what the hell, I'll try it, what have I got to lose. I'm *very* happy with what I've learned! When I started in the gaming industry, I wanted to make games (still do, but that's another comment) and I had a job interview the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. I live in Houston and we had to evacuate before the hurricane behind Katrina hit us. We came back home fine, but I had less than 8 hours to finish building a level in Unreal Engine...2 (lol). I had no idea what I was doing but I got something ugly put together and got the job. But THIS here that I've made (learning from you) is what set out to make for that interview and is I saw in my head. I always wanted to come back and do it just the way I saw it (with a little Grant Abbitt twist). I am still working on it and I have a little more to add to it, but extremely happy with the results. AND it will apply to the fashion things I want to make. You are an awesome teacher! Everything is so clear and easy to understand. You explain everything, again, straight forward, not once have I been confused or frustrated while going through this with you. And your voice is so soothing. Thank you! I can put this little piece of my soul to rest and go on to the next awesome thing. TLDR -Thank you Grant, you're awesome!

[@grabbitt]

Good to hear 🙂👍

[@pramodpatil6053]

YOU ARE THE BEST, SIR.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@bakalov5543]

Awesome tutorials really helpfull for new people like me

[@berndfachinger6000]

I found an easy way to move the boat with the waves. I parented a single vertex of the boat to a vertex of the water surface. It's not the smoothest movement, but from a distance it does it's job.

[@grabbitt]

Nice idea

[@Framed_Synth]

Grant, Thank you for this i would say mini-course. It was very interesting to follow and i learned a lot. Appreciate your work. Love your other tutorials and you helping a lot to learn blender in a playful and interesting way.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Carlos-kr4nz]

Fantástic! Some day I´ll make an aquarium and this tutorial is simply a Must Watch. Thanks for your time doing this and the rest of videos, thanks a lot

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Yanimo_Games]

when your head can't keep up. just do it all over and over and over and over until you succeed perseverance is the key.

[@marijagajski9800]

Wow! This is beautiful!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks:)

[@carlos3dblender318]

WOW! WOW! Awesome.

[@Animawoods]

thanks man, I just have finish this course and feel professional.

[@robestey5628]

So very cool. Well done. Love your channel.

[@grabbitt]

Thank you so much!

[@JBGameplay]

That looks freaking nice^^

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@ElazarDavydov]

Night scenes are awesome. Thank you for doing it. Can you show how to make it go from night to sunrise? Also again if u can make a modern interior in blender 2.8 I would pay for it. Thank you so much.

[@grabbitt]

I will eventually do some architectural stuff

[@gyulasarkozy1973]

Wonderful work again! Nice stuff!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@ArtistWizardry]

Aww.. that's beautiful!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks:)

[@tahseenullah2935]

Sir you are awesome believe me you are.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@ghua]

excellent, as usual!

[@earljovial2036]

aye now i know how to properly set light for my scene *ps usualy i use big cube and use transparrent to get night effect lol

[@setroid8235]

It's been a while since I've exported an animation into Unity, but I know I had to animate Blender actions. I think in Blender 2.8 you use the Nonlinear Animation editor to do that. I hope that points you in the right direction with what you want to export. I'm no Blender expert (that's why I'm here).

[@grabbitt]

YEs I've seen people do that before so i should give it a try :)

[@bettythomas8660]

💕it! More on nighttime lighting 👏👏

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :) but what more would you like to see :)

[@GreenosMatthew]

Come on! I did not finish the well yet! Awesome work :>

[@grabbitt]

:)

[@pudgy-wudgy69]

ty this helped me

[@combeechan]

This is so badass looking!!! Is there a way to pause the scene and bake the lighting onto the textures? Like, creating a new texture output that has the shadows and lighting onto it?

[@grabbitt]

yes but it's relatively complex for a beginners tutorial

[@Luuzy6]

I just can't find a somewhat similar hdri. nothing is really dark blue, everything is either sunset or has a very greenish tone that doesnt look good :( I love your tutorials though, keep it up c:

[@giovannivittorioambrosini6621]

Hey Grant, great tutorial. I'm working on a night scene in of ship for a matte painting I'm doing, and I've got a few lanterns spread across it but my scene is covered with lighting artifacts (small bright particles all over the ship). I've tried both a stupid amount of samples and light bounces (upto 2048 samples and 256 light bounces), but nothing 😕. Any ideas?

[@grabbitt]

denoise

[@giovannivittorioambrosini6621]

@@grabbitt alright, thx. I'll give that a try 👍🏻

[@Daloshka]

It's beautiful

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Usual_User]

So cool!

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Zingam]

Hello Grant, could you please at the end of this series (and the hand-painted) series make an estimation how long you it take you to create this scene if you are doing it for production purposes in a real game/client and then what would you expect for somebody with intermediate skills to do it. It might be in the video or just in the comments. That would be useful for beginners to know what to expect and not to fantasize impossible goals. Thank you for your tutorials!

[@grabbitt]

I'll try and remember how long it took :) but yes i'll try and remember to do that

[@DavidBoura]

i'm a bit late on your last vids sorry, but this is way better that what i had in mind and wished to see. The cute animated fishes, and the in water lighting are great!" (font size=1 ; maybe just a super slow turntable?)

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Mc-je4yb]

I've skip this part, but i will definitely do it later.

[@magmach5558]

thx u. but how u see the work area like that? in my blender its black and shadow...do u know how to do it like ur work area? thx

[@grabbitt]

You may have a bug

[@magmach5558]

@@grabbitt Ok thx, but its show me that I can change the color and how can i save the file that after the bug ill pick up where I did?

[@PauloHenrique-kx4of]

how are you, very good video. how to know the direction of the sun lights, what rule do you use? does it work for daytime lighting?

[@grabbitt]

I don't use any errors I just see what looks good

[@PauloHenrique-kx4of]

@@grabbitt Ok, I get it thank you

[@MohamedSamy-vp2pq]

Can u add tutorial for how to make stylized shading ocean like this in Moana movie in day and night?

[@karstenz.8754]

Great tutorial, very helpful. Do you always combine Emission with extra lights inside of objects or is there any reason for only using emission as a light source? What are the advantages of both methods? I need to figure this out for my own project where I have to animate the strength of the light as well

[@grabbitt]

You have s little more control with an extra light and it's essential for eevee

[@vanajmoorthy4018]

Could you make a video on animating a transition between the day scene and the night scene?

[@grabbitt]

just animated your light emission :)

[@benfluencer6441]

great video, i love your channel! I was wondering, for the final render which you start this video with, how did you handle the background "image"? is it a plane or.. im having issues with the lights/glow look. thanks so much!

[@grabbitt]

i cant quite remember sorry

[@destruction3d119]

How do you made the Rotation of the sea shack ? Did you rotate the sea shack or the camera ? Can you make a Tutorial to this ? Thanks 😀

[@grabbitt]

See my camera rotation tutorial

[@nealcaffrey4837]

Hello, where can I found the HDRI? I checked in hdri haven and didn't found it.. Thanks for the tutorial, you're a great teacher ! I'll take your course in Udemy after that :)

[@grabbitt]

hmm not sure thats where i get most of mine. You can find a very similar one i am sure

[@bichphuongnguyen999]

Hi Grant, Thank you for your tuttorial, but can you make a more video about how to export file fbx with the material, i get trouble of this! Anyway, thank you so much!!!

[@grabbitt]

you cannot export with the material you have to set it up again in the new programme

[@bichphuongnguyen999]

@@grabbitt oh, thank you so much.!!! Thanks for answer

[@dan-kumar]

Thanks mate! Awesome tuts! Question ! Is there a way or how would you go about setting up reflections of objects within the scene and not HDR img on water in evee?

[@grabbitt]

just dont use an HDRI. Actually not sure i understand your question

[@RemyDrijkoningen]

What about frozen water, snow falling (particles and force field) and thunder keyframing the light for the next season of this iconic scene? ^^

[@grabbitt]

hmmm maybe :) or maybe the next scene instead :)

[@VicenteRaiol]

I had to search for a while to fund this HDRI. Looks like it was deleted everywhere of easy access. I only got it from a Vietnamese outdated Sketchup site.

[@yuridegtyarev7229]

great vids keep up the good work. I know this has nothing to do with the video, but can someone tell me why does vortex paint and sculpting sometimes doesn't work? i am sure i select the object before and the radius of the "brushes" is not too small.

[@grabbitt]

i dont really use vertex paint so i can help sorry

[@yuridegtyarev7229]

@@grabbitt oh i'm an idiot it works now, sorry for wasting time. 😂

[@zuzudernegger9721]

What will be the next to happen to this scene? Rain? Storm? Vulcano? Aliens?

[@DavidBoura]

oh yeah, thunder and flashing sky

[@Andy_S79]

❤️❤️❤️

[@mehrdad2685]

could you please provide a link to how you show pressed keys on the screen? thanks

[@grabbitt]

Jayanams youtube channel

[@SeuDigao]

I've seen you parent lights to meshes. But does it work when you are using the mesh in a particle system? Or is it just better to use an emission material?

[@grabbitt]

yes an emission material would be better in this case

[@robeesaurus]

Any idea how to make light rays through the water?

[@grabbitt]

you have to fake a fair bit with eevee otherwise use cycles

[@huggingpuppy2613]

10:59 Why can't you just parent the light to the mesh?

[@grabbitt]

i think they may have updated it as it was not working for this tutorial

[@huggingpuppy2613]

@@grabbitt oh I see

[@zuzudernegger9721]

That's way too much now! 🤑 I am speechless! How many of these effects are applicable to the hand painted scene?

[@subhajitdutta4106]

I think all.

[@grabbitt]

some can be brought over :)

[@subhajitdutta4106]

@@grabbittplz make a short video about that...

[@grabbitt]

@@subhajitdutta4106 yes i will do in the hand painted series :)

[@Zingam]

@@grabbitt What about the water? Can the hand painted water be made transparent and will it look good? Please when extending the hand-painted tutorial, keep the purely hand-painted version as shown in the demo part of the video separate from any additional vfx extensions if you know what I mean as I guess these could represent two different styles.

[@sckanner]

hello Mr. Abbitt, I have been following your marvelous course, I have got to this point but level 5 is desabled, the link looks broken, I would like to be able to continuo until I am an advace artist and maybe work in some of your game projects. :). without further ado, I am just reporting level 5 broken link. :)

[@grabbitt]

I'll look into it

[@yeahmagicmike5031]

Hello, Grant. I'm trying to connect a point light to the swinging lamp. I tried (like you said) to link the light to an empty, then the empty to the animated bones. However, neither my light nor the empty actually move with it. I've tried linking in different sequences. What could I be doing wrong? Thanks!

[@grabbitt]

Not sure what's going wrong there

[@yeahmagicmike5031]

@@grabbitt If I discover a solution I'll post it here. There are some very friendly and helpful people on your Discord channel :)

[@mervkaplan]

Hi! When I used cycle what's happening the fish lights? And with cycle the water edge turning to the black, does anyone know why it is like that?

[@grabbitt]

Increase light bounces probably

[@dylanfernandes7932]

Loved the tutorial but couldnt get one thing to work properly..the water....my water just doesnt look as clear as urs. Mine looks a bit blurry, could u help me figure out what am i doin wrong....the only time my water looks a bit clear is when i increase the intensity of lights in my scene but i want to create a night scene so increasing light intensity isnt an option. Ive also used the same HDRI as u mentioned in this video. Ive left the IOR as default, roughness-0, tranmission-max.

[@grabbitt]

make sure you have ticked all the different bits that need to be checked for full transparency

[@dylanfernandes7932]

@@grabbitt ive dome that... Screen space reflection,refractions etc

[@Luuzy6]

Random question but where did u find the hdri? i cant find it on hdri haven and i don't find a similar one either (can't help you with the problem, because i have the same one)

[@aadikanchankar8475]

I have completed the course but I am trying to export this in an video format such as .mp4 for taking it to my other video editor so that i can create the video and share it.... so how can i create it into .mp4 format so that it becomes a video and all the fish,flag,tree also move....

[@grabbitt]

see my quick tips playlist

[@Natalie-lh8wi]

Dear Grant, I have problems with sun lights! Lighting does not react when I move the sun lamp around the scene, objects seem to get light only from the top, even if I place the sun next to the obj. Is there a way to fix it? :( Thanks!!!

[@grabbitt]

material preview mode instead of render top right of viewport

[@AkarshnaB]

I can't find the shader emission option.

[@grabbitt]

under the shader menu

[@AkarshnaB]

@@grabbitt Yep found it. Thank you so much.

[@bibekpoudel2628]

how can we loop the empty moving in a circle

[@grabbitt]

Graph editor

[@bibekpoudel2628]

i didnt find any keyframes related to curve's animation....suppose if i set my curve's frame to 100 and my animation is of 200 frames how can i make my object connected to curve move after 100 frames as to make 2nd round or something like that.......by the way huge fan of your thank you for teaching us 🙏

[@KurakusKentongTatay]

Hello Grant! I have a problem everytime I play the animation or rotate the 3D Viewport, the light seems turned off. I don't know how to solve it :(

[@grabbitt]

it sounds like a bug

[@KurakusKentongTatay]

@@grabbitt Sad ☹️ but thanks for the reply hehehe

[@Horrorbrezel]

The Problem you might had, was that your shadows where still ticket in the Light settings itself. Unclick it and you should have the same results as Grant's :)

[@captainpawpawchannel]

you could have parented the light point to the lamp object, no?

[@grabbitt]

it's not that simple unfortunately

[@captainpawpawchannel]

Why that?

[@grabbitt]

have a try :)

[@captainpawpawchannel]

@@grabbitt it works, parent the lamp object to the bone, then parent the light to the lamp object, not sure what's the problem ;) (or parent the light to the bone)

[@grabbitt]

@@captainpawpawchannel that's interesting it failed to work for me😃

[@mirshadaakifarts9807]

I already completed everything but I can't rotate the animation object won't rotate correctly objects splinting I set to 360 I tried everything what I am doing wrong here can you explain plz 😥

[@grabbitt]

not sure what you mean

[@mirshadaakifarts9807]

@@grabbitt it's about turningcamera just now I figured out

[@ferns_bubble1005]

How do I make the lamp tho

[@grabbitt]

see my recent house/cottage tutorial i think i talk about the lamp in htat

[@ferns_bubble1005]

Grant Abbitt thank youuuuuu

[@coreys2686]

Rendering an image sequence is probably the best bet.

[@Blinko_Blonko]

Holy shit this dude just went to 200 viewport samples like it was nothing. My potato would have baked on me if it went anywhere near there.

[@grabbitt]

I fast forward those things

[@hurricane-pb7yt]

How to fix this problem:- When I press the numpad shortcut keys for front view it does not adjust it to front view but near to it. It's hard to work without it. PLS HELP 🙏

[@myztazynizta]

are you sure your scene isn't slightly rotated?

[@grabbitt]

yes it sounds like your scene is rotated not the viewport

[@hurricane-pb7yt]

@@myztazynizta I don't really know. I tried to set everything to default but it did not work

[@hurricane-pb7yt]

@@grabbitt how do I fix it?

[@grabbitt]

@@hurricane-pb7yt I don't actually know for this one

[@lilykaur835]

Animation is great but where is shark . . . . . . . U r talented.

[@andreiprihhodko8220]

Hello guys! one question: I have rendered sequence of png files (500 in total) and I need somehow to put them into single animated file ready to be uploaded into social networks. does anyone know some efficient way how to do this ?:) tried some online convertes, but seems they cannot handle big amount of files.

[@grabbitt]

you can do it in blender. Also you can render as ffmpeg

[@ditotodi7805]

Anyone have a link to the hdri file?

[@grabbitt]

hdri haven

[@christopherfreeman2858]

i know another grant that is good at teaching :) 3blue1brown

[@grabbitt]

Anyone who is called Grant has to be good at teaching. it's a very important part of being called Grant

[@mangocheesebruh7598]

Hi people, can someone help me bc I dont understand how to switch type tnx

[@grabbitt]

not sure what you mean

[@Isgolas]

Select the node and press SHIFT + S

[@Max-vr1it]

I stuggled with that too, after a quick research I came across this: "(...) Go to User Preferences > Addons and search "node wrangler". Enable it. Then in the Node Editor, with a node selected, you can switch with SHIFT + S (...)"