Realistic Lighting in Blender: 11 Hacks You’ve Probably Never Tried

Gleb Alexandrov — Mon, 02 May 2016 14:32:40 +0000

Realistic Lighting in Blender

11 Hacks You've Probably Never Tried

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Video Info: 2 hours, 1920 x 1080(download), MP4 format
15 Tutorials
Lots of Cheating
Software Used: Blender 2.77, Cycles, Krita 2.9
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Instructor: Gleb Alexandrov, Artist & Founder of the Creative Shrimp blog

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"A carefully constructed creative course! Gleb has a really fun and fantastic approach to creating fun and fantastic (and sometimes crazy) art!"

Aidy Burrows - Artist and Tutorial Creator at CG Masters

"Gleb is a Wizard!"

Colin Levy - Camera & Staging Artist, Director of Sintel

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Realistic Lighting Can Be A Pain in the Butt

If you’ve ever tried to create a thick cloudy fog with the light shining through it, you know how tantalizing it is.

Waiting 53 hours watching render buckets crawl across the screen... it sucks. Even the nerdiest of nerds wouldn't enjoy it.

And now imagine this.

You can take a shortcut (or rather a smartcut) and render it in 2 minutes.

You just need to know how to HACK the realistic lighting in Blender.

“I can’t think of many better ways to master both realistic and stylistic lighting than with this useful and enjoyable video series"

Stephen Holmes - Editor at 3D Artist

3dartistonline.com

00. Introduction

In the introduction video I'll walk you through the video course chapters and other important stuff. Like "why coffee?" etc.

01. Sample the Reflection
from a Different Scene

In the lighting hack #1 we'll be adding a virtual reflection on top of our original one.

02.1. Fake Caustics

Physically-based caustics can be a pain in the butt. Let's simulate the same effect (but faster!) using the light texture.

TUTORIALS

02.2. Light Texture

How to use a projection technique to add an eye-catching throw pattern to a light source?

03.1. Wet Ground

How to make a surface look wet and glossy? Watch this chapter (oh, the effect is 90% made of variable roughness).

03.2. Super Glossy

...And in this chapter we'll take a look at the super glossy surfaces.

04. Normal-based Lighting

You can add an extra oomph to your lighting by playing with the normal-based effects in the material.

7m35s

5m8s

5m51s

6m27s

5m29s

7m10s

6m07s

05. Breaking the Energy
Conservation Law

How to use the Add shader to break the energy conservation law and create... the luminiscent mushrooms effect?

06. Paint the Lightmap

Learn how to beautify the lighting by painting a lightmap. Like we live in a Quake era.

07. Traffic Trails

Discover how to simulate a traffic trails effect in Blender.

08. Physically Incorrect is Fun

Recap some hacks from the previous chapters and combine them to create a hyperrealistic render.

09. Separate Lighting and Camera View

The Light Path node works wonders, if you need to saparate the actual light emitted by objects VS what camera sees. Why bother? For example, tweak the reflections ONLY.

10. Particles Using Transparent Planes

Simulate particles floating in the air, using this incredibly simple technique (hint: alpha-mapped planes).

11. Volume Light Hack

A physically correct volume scattering effect can be insanely hard to set up and tweak. Let's use the alpha-mapped planes instead.

5m36s

13m31s

6m59s

8m09s

4m37s

7m43s

5m38s

Parts: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

"A large part of visual effects and achieving reality in a computer is knowing how to cheat to get the look you want.

With these 11 hacks, you're going to learn some of the best tricks Gleb knows

Sean Kennedy, Visual Effects Artist

OpenVisualFX.com

"Gleb is one of the few artists that goes against the standard conventions in CG to create truly mesmerizing renders.

Any tutorials that reveal his workflows are definitely worth watching!"

and they are great!"

Andrew Price, Creator of

BlenderGuru.com

BONUSES

Asset Library

Watching tutorials is cool, but wouldn't it be more effective if you also could learn by example? With 15 .blend files included, you can open each scene and see how it works.

Post-processing is kind of an ultimate lighting hack. The dirtiest of the hacks. So I thought: "I have to squeeze the post-processing tutorial into the course".

Post-processing Tips

Introduction to Photogrammetry

Photogrammetry is a cutting edge technology in a graphics industry. Watch this tutorial to learn the basics of creating the photo-scanned 3D assets.

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Realistic Lighting in Blender: 11 Hacks You’ve Probably Never Tried

Realistic Lighting in Blender

11 Hacks You've Probably Never Tried

Watch this video course and start creating juicy lighting in the least painful way

Realistic Lighting in Blender

Instructor: Gleb Alexandrov, Artist & Founder of the Creative Shrimp blog

Realistic Lighting Can Be A Pain in the Butt

00. Introduction

01. Sample the Reflection from a Different Scene

02.1. Fake Caustics

TUTORIALS

02.2. Light Texture

03.1. Wet Ground

03.2. Super Glossy

04. Normal-based Lighting

05. Breaking the Energy Conservation Law

06. Paint the Lightmap

07. Traffic Trails

08. Physically Incorrect is Fun

09. Separate Lighting and Camera View

10. Particles Using Transparent Planes

11. Volume Light Hack

BONUSES

Asset Library

Post-processing Tips

Introduction to Photogrammetry

01. Sample the Reflection
from a Different Scene

05. Breaking the Energy
Conservation Law