In this video Martin Klekner shares practical workflows to make your 3d character lighting more cinematic and help you in your storytelling needs. ⇨ Project files and Blender 2.8 Shortcut PDF (email required): cgboost.com/resources/ ⇨ Martin's KZbin Channel: kzbin.info CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 02:21 - Lighting Scenario 1: Beauty lighting 04:00 - High-key / Low-key lighting 05:06 - Light types (Key, Fill, Back, Rim...) 06:02 - Light Quality - Soft Lighting 08:54 - Lighting Scenario 2: Dramatic 08:56 - Light Ratio - Low / High Light Ratio 12:01 - Short (Reverse) / Broad Lighting 12:23 - Paramount Lighting 12:46 - Loop Lighting 13:52 - Motivated Lighting 16:40 - Lighting Scenario 3: Mysterious 17:28 - Hair Light 19:23 - Split Lighting, Rembrandt Lighting 21:21 - Lighting Scenario 4: Evil 25:03 - Lighting Scenario 5: Dynamic 27:27 - Checkerboard Lighting 28:35 - Lighting Scenario 6: Mystical 33:05 - Outro
@scottlee384 жыл бұрын
Basically one of those Gnomon Workshop tutorials, only free instead of $100. Good work!
@AZmaybe93 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize it was possible to get almost turned on by how much knowledge I picked up from this video playlist
@Masha_B4 жыл бұрын
Great work! I love these videos. Lighting and composition are often underestimated topics in tutorials about 3D.
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Masha!
@techies_gaming80914 жыл бұрын
hi, I want to ask something. do you know a book that learns all about lighting in animation? I need that for my last essay college for Bibliography/references please help thanks
@causeitso2 жыл бұрын
I'm in a different line of work now but I made my first render in 2001 and continued till 2005, I played around with a lot of software and many many renders and I remember that placing area lights and volumetric effects were a pain because I had to hit render constantly. Your view port on the other hand looks production ready! Which is amazing. So as you said 5 seconds of appreciation for what technology is able to do now.
@theweepingmopper3928 Жыл бұрын
I think this is an excellent lighting tutorial. Thank you so much, Martin, for taking the time and the effort to make this. It was one of the best spent 35 minutes on the Tube.
@MartinKlekner Жыл бұрын
So glad to hear that!
@blenderrender92224 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest lighting tutorials I ever seen... Thanks a lot!
@Studios2u3 жыл бұрын
Its nice spending time with you, Su!!! ;)
@o.s_arts4 жыл бұрын
Martin is doing great job... I might say that the Best tut. on lighting so far... Just keep them coming.. Specially based on (Character/Stylized animation) all kind of gud stuff 😊
@EvanMapleMaggot2 жыл бұрын
This video is amazing. I spend 12 hours today at my new animation and was so upset how it looks like until found your video. Now im going to sleep with hope to finish project tomorrow cause of new knowledges. It makes life great. Thank you
@simonk.29694 жыл бұрын
good lighting immensely improves digital art...Thanks for this tutorial... Can you do large scenes lighting tutorial with animation in mind
@nikhilnamdev45844 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video,its really help me for proper ligting, make more videos like this
@WesleySales14 жыл бұрын
I love theses videos and theory behind Martin! Help a lot! Please, keep them coming 😃🙏
@millerrobayo40044 жыл бұрын
Martin, good tutorial. Thanks for explaining some of your techniques.
@user-tl7fu3kw3w2 жыл бұрын
So much valuable information!! Thank you!
@alexandreancel64234 жыл бұрын
Countless great tips in this video, thank you really much !
@Visualbugtv4 жыл бұрын
great! lighting is one of the things we need more practice to improve! love the video! AND waiting for Juan Hernández's character creation tutorial! ups! just an idea jejeje
@geocherk4 жыл бұрын
Awesome example of Hair light!)))
@blue-R393 жыл бұрын
your content is gold.
@RenderRides4 жыл бұрын
Great video! Really nicely explained. Watching it right now, and I already expect to learn a lot from it!
@luxor93393 жыл бұрын
Now I'm still wondering why I can watch this video for free, thanks a lot.
@elliotfrahs59973 жыл бұрын
One of the most well-thought-out and put-together teaching videos I've seen. This took a lot of effort - thank you!
@mankomal34 жыл бұрын
OMG this helped me so much! Best lighting tutorial ever!!
@mordecai14843 жыл бұрын
I love Eeve so much that I often think about it when I go to bed. PS. thank you!
@grayjackgaming17464 жыл бұрын
17:34 I love lowkey humor like this
@juancarlospaduavalentin45583 жыл бұрын
You are say, Beautiful.
@namtong5774 жыл бұрын
So useful, thanks!
@hossamketfi98923 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@fhccardoso94873 жыл бұрын
Hi CG Boost! A character sculpting training in Blender by Juan Hernandez would be very very awesome! His work is really great!
@calebbrazeau45973 жыл бұрын
thank you.
@AurelieCouble4 жыл бұрын
Incredible ! It was so useful and inspiring ! Kind of make me want to switch to Blender as well haha. I hope there will be more tutorials like this one, thanks !
@Gatz3D4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video!! Thanks for sharing all this info! Very informative! 👍👍
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching ;-)
@Dimitar_Genov4 жыл бұрын
Superb content brother. Keep up your good work!
@REDPanti4 жыл бұрын
Great Tips 👍
@deadpoolbr04 жыл бұрын
such a gem!
@izzaauliyairabby52913 жыл бұрын
Amazing tips
@randomamerican63203 жыл бұрын
Wonderful content and the wisdom is amazing!
@100Peterll4 жыл бұрын
21:34 damn that was really twisted...
@AngelAgudoGuerrero4 жыл бұрын
Great Compendium!
@dagimdebrework93183 жыл бұрын
thanks you bro you are super helpful
@Israel20992 жыл бұрын
Amazing stuff!
@honeynaim91153 жыл бұрын
Outstanding Video, amazing job, thanks a ton.
@caiwei68953 жыл бұрын
thank you so much, u help us a lot 😆😆
@AeroBiling4 жыл бұрын
Hi Martin, thanks for awesome video again! And are you gonna share the video of livestream which was a few days ago? I could not watch until the end, but it interesting for me to see final. Hope you do, thanks :D
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Hey Shyngyskhan, livestream recordings are available for my Patrons over here: www.patreon.com/MartinKlekner :-)
@I_am_Spartacus4 жыл бұрын
Loved this and definitely something I really needed to watch! I love videos like this where I can instantly apply what I learn to my projects. Could you do a video on how to determine what size I should create my models for different real world projects please? @Martin Klekner I can't find any info on the web about this? Thanks!
@Osarunga3 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you so much
@mukeshsingh-fs1sr4 жыл бұрын
Nice video. carry on to teach us always.
@rakeshscientist4 жыл бұрын
I SUBSCRIBED your channel through Jared Owens
@SugarLightStudios4 жыл бұрын
Next video should be definitely about dynamic poses
@ahmadsunusi31622 жыл бұрын
Good, wish to see tutorial lighting an environment using HDR image and why do you use spot lamp instead of sun lamp to light the from out site, what is the difference?
@MartinKlekner2 жыл бұрын
This tutorial was made in Eevee and it doesnt really do HDRi lighting that good, so instead I used Spot Lights. I used those instead of Sun lamps because a) they are more performance friendly b) they allow me a precise control over the direction and areas illuminated, as opposed to sun lamps
@tyoo95023 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial! The project works fine in Eevee, but it looks like it runs out of memory when rendering with Cycles. Not sure why that is.
@middlebenchcreations38764 жыл бұрын
Its really cool... can do lighting tutorial for moving characters
@monkeyjack9294 жыл бұрын
Hello! Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I just can't figure out where did you plug the dust texture @8:27 !? Is it plugged to a plane? Thanks a lot once again! /cheers
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, if you use the Import Images as Planes addon and then Import - Images as Planes, it will do it almost automatically. Then, you just have to plug the picture into Alpha channel In Shader Editor. If you download the Project Files to this tutorial, you can see exactly how I plugged it in :-)
@happysmash27 Жыл бұрын
Eh, Cycles can do real-time previews too. It's a bit noisy and takes a few seconds to be completely understandable sometimes, but I have no trouble lighting my scenes this way at all.
@andreirafael55824 жыл бұрын
is there a course for the character creation? its exactly what am i looking for omg
@cgboost4 жыл бұрын
Well, there might be one in the future 😉
@ImakIlaha3 жыл бұрын
top!!!
@rohitkhanvilkr16364 жыл бұрын
Hi Su.
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
你好! - Su, probably
@pelakalion4 жыл бұрын
This video tutorial it's not well paid enough. Thanks :)
@max_nadolny2 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial. But the project renders too slow. About 15 mins on 1080 ti. Probably the texture size is too high and 12 GB of VRAM is not enough.
@AllExistence4 жыл бұрын
Emission doesn't light the scene in eevee.
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the note, didn't realize that! :)
@nievous4 жыл бұрын
@@MartinKlekner Unless you're using an irrandiance volume of course!
@moonthurst4 жыл бұрын
realy nice tuts for still images... or are they ?! can we use this technic for lighting animations ? I mean with this method, wouldn't the charachter get out of its light setup!? (lets say in a fight scene) What then ?
@cgboost4 жыл бұрын
Hi! You can apply this principles in animations too, just be careful so that your light is consistant and looks natural. Notice that this tutorial referenced lots of light setups used in movies sets. You can deal with lightning in the same way as in movie sets - they also deal with making every shot with great lightning but keeping everything unified so that it makes sense. - Juan
@gameranch19952 жыл бұрын
Hey everyone, I'm a 2D character artist with a deep obsession with video games and computer graphics. However I was never into much programming and coding but more attracted to the creative and art sides of the projects like how shadows are implemented, light sources. Like I want to just know how it works without getting into the detail of the maths involved. I haven't been able to find simpler explainations of this. I have a question about how facial shadows are working in Forbidden West as the character of Aloy has poor facial deep facial shadows being casted on Aloy's face on the PS5 version in the prologue but get very good as we get into the game like advertised in the State of Play 21. Can you please help me with a little a bit of information?
@cgboost2 жыл бұрын
With game engines and real-time render engines, a lot depends on how the shadows are being created. In a lot of cases, the shadows can be built into the textures which is often the case with things like shadows in nostrils and mouth of characters because they are very small spaces and to get that level of accuracy in the shadows, it would take a lot more processing time. If the shadows are being calculated "on the fly" then you'll often find that small spaces like that don't have very convincing shadows unless the game / scene has a higher level of shadow detail. They might turn the detail up or down depending on what the surrounding environment is like. It's also possible with newer real-time render engines that there's a more dynamic way of defining detail. For example, in conversations, the shadow detail in the background doesn't need to be as high but you want the detail to be high on the characters. Really it comes down to how the game is built and what resources the scene in question requires. ~ Daniel
@robob3ar4 жыл бұрын
Nice, where’s the dust tutorial? You add it to the world shader?
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
You can learn how to add the atmosphere in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWGapmeJbd19jtU
@simonvacek48214 жыл бұрын
hello! Soo I'm thinking about buying your paid beginner course, and I wanted to ask you if it is still useful, basically if the modelling shortcuts, techniques etc. have changed. Im young and very new to blender (so far I'm loving it), if you think your course isn't the right thing for me, what would you recommend? thank you
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Hello, if you mean CGBoost Blender Launch Pad, definitely, it will teach you all you need to start in Blender :)
@devadethanmp54863 жыл бұрын
@Martin Klekner can i use this character for my nft project 👀
@cgboost3 жыл бұрын
Answered on the academy site. Using someone else's character without proper permission and rights, especially for gaining profit, is nor nice neither legal. BTW character is created by Juan Hernandez. ~Egon
@yoangelle28654 жыл бұрын
Can you put the film Megalomania on your site for download so that I can see this film there!
@sachinmane82972 жыл бұрын
hi, Su
@pravinrenders4 ай бұрын
I just noticed you look like the boltan from game of thrones.
@techies_gaming80914 жыл бұрын
where I can get a book that teaches me about lighting in blender?? I need that for reference my last exam
@guilhermeoliveira16732 жыл бұрын
(sinister tone)
@kingkelvinvalentine97562 жыл бұрын
PLEASE SEND ME THE 3D models OF THE SHAOLIN MONK CHARACTER RIG
@FortitudeStudio3 жыл бұрын
I don't got the "specular" setting in my lights :/
@FortitudeStudio3 жыл бұрын
Oh I see, it's because Eevee has it but not Cycles!
@sribalramdas61583 жыл бұрын
That first example of hair light...😂😂😂
@voidlight60063 жыл бұрын
wait wtf how did you do the dust texture
@MindfulMusingsTome4 жыл бұрын
@8:40 Where does he add the image/video texture for particles? To a plane?
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Yes it is just a plane :)
@max_nadolny2 жыл бұрын
How did you pose the monk? There is no armature on it.
@MartinKlekner2 жыл бұрын
We did have armature on it, but removed it for the shared files, the author didnt want to share the complete rig, Im sure you understand :-)
@max_nadolny2 жыл бұрын
@@MartinKlekner I see. Thank you. 8k textures is too much for my 1080 ti. Render time in eevee is about 3 hours.
@shrysm4 жыл бұрын
You should have more subs than blender guru....no offense
@blendershots4 жыл бұрын
Brother whats your computer specs?
@martinhepp5553 жыл бұрын
He kinda looks like soker from avatar the last airbender
@canidu4 жыл бұрын
Hi Martin where do I find the texture file for this tutorial found the blender files but no texture files thanks
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Hello, if you subscribe to the Blender Beginners course at CGBoost and go to the Resources lesson, you will be able to access Dropbox or Google Drive folder. In there, you navigate to Free Resources - Blender Tutorials - 2020_05_22_lighting_3d_characters folder. There you will find a .zip file with the textures...
@lornemalvoo4 жыл бұрын
How many hour take for doing this. And another question: Can i do this with python code stuff.
@ArtPomelo4 жыл бұрын
What are you asking for? There is no need to use python here..
@LudovicPiquet014 жыл бұрын
Hello I can't find the sources for this tuto via the link .
@MartinKlekner4 жыл бұрын
Hello if you go to CGBoost.com/Resources and subscribe to the course, you can then open the Download all Blender Resources & Blender 2.8 Hotkey Sheet PDF lesson and there, you get access to Google Drive or Dropbox. They are situated in the Free Resources-blender tutorials-2020_05_22_lighting_3D_characters_for_storytelling folder... Hope it helps!
@englishsouth820 Жыл бұрын
name of the app please
@cgboost Жыл бұрын
If you man the 3D software, it is Blender. Free to download here: www.blender.org/download/
@Illasera4 жыл бұрын
Learn this well, But, After practice the given GUIDELINES, I would actually try to do the opposite of everything said here... The majority does the same thing, use the same lighting setup, the same animation style, the same composition tricks, The same color gamut. Knight to E5 [Automated moves without thinking]. My recommendation to the good folks here : Try to deviate from the rules given. Another recommendation is to watch old films that were more experimental, Even black and white films, they focused more on mastering lighting better than today, without colors to distract. (I am not implying to have noir films, nor modern art which is disgusting on its own, But a way to train your mind for experimenting, Folks, Understand, Everyone follow the same guidelines which results in the same product visually).