Cinematic Lighting - Updated and Remastered for Blender 5.x (2026) • Creative Shrimp

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What’s New in Remastered?

Here’s a changelog for the updated Cinematic Lighting (v 1.3, 2026).

TLDR:

Our foundational lighting course – updated and remastered for Blender 5.x (course version 1.3)
Free update for existing users
Over 2 hours of brand-new content: Sea Shore (Cinematic Outdoor Lighting)
Many hours re-recorded from scratch
Completely remade Post-production Essentials and Monastery Dungeon chapters
Blender 5.x-related inserts into original videos from Minerals, Robo and other chapters
Updated Project Files (for Blender 5.0 and higher)
More lighting theory
Improved flow and user experience.

Worth re-downloading and re-watching (especially the new and reworked chapters), even if you’ve watched the original one.

The videos, especially from the Minerals and Robo chapters are supplemented with the Blender
5.x inserts dealing with the changed / new features like Light Source Temperature and so on. The
inserts are seamlessly integrated into the videos – re-rendered and subtitled anew.
The folder structure is optimized. New, clearer naming conventions.
Improvements to the overall flow of the course.
The Light Groups section was moved from the Robo chapter to Bonuses – to make the learning
experience more streamlined, e.g. moving from the Robo character lighting straight to the new
Monastery Dungeon chapter.
An improved cross-referencing of tutorials (from within other tutorials).
More theory and lighting foundations peppered around the videos.
Note: No DLSS denoising for Cycles mentioned yet – waiting for this feature to mature and the
NVidia licensing issues sorted out. Will be covered in a separate video.

Minerals

Minerals: new explainer of Cycles vs Eevee differences.
Minerals: a reworked section on the Principled BSDF material properties in the context of
lighting (“Lighting and Materials”).
Minerals: the Subsurface Scattering update. The fix to the .blend file in the project files.
The new view transforms comparison (ACES, Khronos etc).
A new anisotropy explainer
Animated Dust Particles mention

Post-processing Essentials (Chapter 01b) – Re-recorded from scratch

New content: +1h02min
A new, Blender 5.x-based workflow for post-processing in the compositor and the color
management panels.
A mini-collection of EXRs for practicing color correction

Light Ratios section expanded. How to measure light ratios (15:1, 2:1 and so on) sampling the
pixel intensity.
Beam shape spread extra
Light linking mention
Light temperature 5.x
A minor update to the volume section
Animated particles mention
View Transforms comparison
IMPORTANT: The entire Light Groups section moved to a new BONUS folder.

New content: +1h10min
Completely remade for Blender 5.x and supplemented with the extended theory parts and new
techniques for illuminating enclosed spaces.
New theory: radial and linear falloff; room as an inverted sphere;
Real-time rendering primer

Flat vs Cinematic lighting in enclosed spaces – explainer
View transforms comparison
Volume: density and anisotropy
New post-pro nodes (Tune Image in 5.x and more) and color management settings update

New content: +1h22min
Learn the impactful outdoor lighting workflows which use the built-in Sky Texture – Multiple
Scattering – and a custom-built multilayer lighting setup.
The project files: Alembic-baked fluid sim (FLIP Fluids); 1 and 48 frames; no add-ons required.
The extended baked animation is available via Google Drive

Added references to the EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering course for context.
A new folder, YOUTUBE. Some of our relevant lighting tutorials from YouTube are now bundled in. Included is a video on navigating the course content by searching in the subtitle files.
A new folder: BONUS. The Light Groups section has been moved to BONUS.