Learning 3D Studio Lighting

Lately we’ve been researching about professional illumination techniques to make illustrations in 3D, because we want to try and make renders that have a cool cinematic look. After studying a lot, we prepared this studio lighting to lit the 3D model below. 👇

Studio lighting in 3D Blender of a character

We tried to get nice contrasts of light and shadows in the volumes of his anatomy using many softboxes and flags to bounce the light in the directions we wanted inside the 3D software.

We still haven’t decided which 3D software we're going to use in the future, but for this tests we’ve used Blender, and we’ve rendered this image using Cycles.

There are plenty of tutorials on how to make cool studio settings made by talented people that know much more than we do, so we won't get into further details. 🙈

Still, if you are curious about the materials, shaders or lights we’ve used, feel free to contact us and we’ll try and tell you more about it.

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