How to Light Glassy Bottle in Blender (Quick Blender Tip 18)

The common mistake when beginners light glassy bottle in blender is using 3 point lighting setup without the understanding of lighting. A glassy bottle or any reflective surface is very challenging to light properly in real world. In this blender tutorial, I will show you how to light glassy bottle in Blender, the key thing is about the surrounding environment, not about the softness/size of the light. 3 point light is not going to serve your render well.
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[@imadkaab7731]

Amaziong tutorial many thanks for this help great salutations from algeria

[@WenboZhao]

You are welcome my friend! Hi from Sydney Australia 😁

[@diogomartinez7991]

looks real, how can you make same fonts

[@DrTomoe-em7rs]

ahh, genius way to make a soft box! i'm so glad i found your channel. blender tuts abound here but i'm in packaging so your content is especially clutch. thank you!

[@WenboZhao]

Glad to hear feedback from a packaging designer 🤓 welcome here

[@Manlike_J]

another great tutorial,,, nice one man

[@WenboZhao]

Thank you 😎

[@jiwonhong4273]

Thank you so much.

[@scud7722]

Is there a way the emission works only from one side like the area light? using normals or something? thanks!

[@walterfory636]

Gracias por el tutorial amigo, de hecho en este momento estoy renderizando 6 botellas de vidrio para una marca de té y este tutorial me sirve de mucho.!!!!

[@WenboZhao]

You’re welcome my friend, good luck on your project 😎

[@andreguila]

Muito bom poderia fazer um tutorial da textura da garrafa.

[@alee4866]

What s the spec of your computer?

[@No-gl9od]

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[@WenboZhao]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@sunraiii]

Hey Wenbo! Could you have a full rendered image at the end of your videos? Seeing the methods you use is amazing, but not seeing the final result is a little disappointing :D

[@WenboZhao]

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[@alicewu8984]

Hello, Wenbo just saw two of your lighting renders about the glass bottle, it looks good and professional with that texturing and shading at the edge and the bottom of the glass bottle. We have this perfume bottle working on its texturing render and find it difficult to achieve the effect we are looking for. We were wondering if you could perhaps have an idea about achieving that. I can show you an image for reference. If you have an email to reach to.

[@WenboZhao]

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[@eklavyatech8588]

Please make more tutorials on lightning

[@妙手鸡腿]

在国内有视频可以看么， 大佬

[@emmalee8858]

Hiii could you please share how to model this bottle from the start? It looks awesome and nobodys done a great clear bottle + clear liquid tut yet and im dying to learn the skills! Youre absolutely amazing btw

[@WenboZhao]

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[@ayamlincah]

Thank you for spread this kindness to the world, so glad discovered your channel

[@Anmol-wk7yi]

My label is not clear and seems overexposed when I do this.. Can you help me with that?? Also there is a middle dark region strip on the glass .

[@dreamtvthai]

Thank you for the great tutorial. I'm glad that I discovered your channel.

[@WenboZhao]

Welcome here mate 🥰

[@danielkapsazov4214]

Great tutorial!! What is the name of the material preview add on that you had?

[@WenboZhao]

Node preview

[@supremebeme]

saw you on fb, following!

[@markokovacevic3225]

Thank you Wenbo for this awesome demonstration! I love the idea of using planes as light. Could you share how you would control the harshness of the light? This is nice and soft light, but if you need something to produce harder shadows, would you then use the light object provided in Blender? Thank you! :)

[@WenboZhao]

Make light size small to create hard light, check out my free ”master one light tutorial “ in the Chanel

[@markokovacevic3225]

@@WenboZhao Thank you for your reply!

[@raulgalets]

how wenbo, another tip, when using vertical resolutions for your camera set your sensor orientation to vertical on the lens configuration

[@WenboZhao]

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[@raulgalets]

@@WenboZhao I hope so! You are the best teacher on youtube, thanks for all the knowledge you've been putting here.

[@missione911_8]

Thanks soooooo much

[@WenboZhao]

You’re welcome my friend

[@waskito3443]

This video was way more comprehensive than I thought it'd be. I'm going to have to rewatch it a few times to really get the most out of it.

[@_RichardOrtega]

I am still having a lot of trouble getting the glass to look right even with the bad set up. When I build my bottle and use the glass texture you recommended in your other videos, I just get a black bottle. Is it because the bottle has thickness to it? How can I fix that problem? I once tried to render glass without thickness, but it had a "liquid" inside, and it also renders looking black. What do you think could be causing this problem?

[@WenboZhao]

Check your render setup, what number did you set up on the reflection?

[@super-six-four]

for some reason i couldn't reproduce the EXACT result as it depicted here 😓 top light refuse to work for me

[@abeblue]

Would you rather use your lightning trick from lesson 20 ? with gradient light ?

[@WenboZhao]

All depends on the lighting situations

[@j3nn_3d]

Hi! I've set up the planes but the bottom plane is not rendering white as seen in the viewport. Is there a setting I need to adjust?

[@WenboZhao]

roughness need to be 0

[@j3nn_3d]

@@WenboZhao Ok, thanks! I’ll try that. My current fix was to increase the backlight emission but it washes out the object. Thanks again!

[@dimorkin]

tnx! absolut nice vodka)

[@WenboZhao]

Thank you mate!

[@herberttubera6996]

thanks man absolute genius

[@WenboZhao]

Thank you for your support

[@imartell5062]

Excelente video, amigo 🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@WenboZhao]

Thanks bro 😎

[@giovanni_papini]

Super helpful, thanks

[@WenboZhao]

you are so welcome😁

[@Equilion]

Hi Wenbo, how did you get the gradient result even right? You go from the ColorRamp directly into the Gradient Texture (which is connecting a yellow to blue dot, what isn't supposed to work). There has to be a sort of converter between them to fit the color of the node connections. So as expected I can't get it to work properly. The plane stays either bright or totally black, though I followed all your steps precisely. I don't have a clue, what node to add between :( Maybe you have a solution for that?

[@WenboZhao]

On the texture coordinator in the end, select object instead to Generated

[@Equilion]

@@WenboZhao And that's exactly the moment, the gradient turns black ;)

[@skyd34th]

Great video, thanks

[@WenboZhao]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@黄海光-l4w]

感谢分享!

[@WenboZhao]

感谢支持

[@No-gl9od]

I would like to subscribe to your member channel. Can you post some tutorials with Chinese subtitles?

[@WenboZhao]

Do you know any translation tool I can use for my subtitles?

[@No-gl9od]

@@WenboZhao NetEase can recognize the translation and then generate subtitles, but the machine translation is not accurate and some errors need to be corrected manually.

[@No-gl9od]

@@WenboZhao I know that youtube can also be translated, but it has too many mistakes.

[@truvu6238]

very good

[@WenboZhao]

Thanks

[@fortragexx]

I like the beginner setup more lmao

[@julianolisboa]

Hi, I couldn't get the same result, I sent you a DM on Instagram showing my problem, can you help?

[@WenboZhao]

No problem, let me take a 👀