[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Setekh


Glad I could help... I love it when my renders inspire the community. It's just cool.

Roach, well... I don't think my renders are that special, but you're right when you say that the best part of them is the lighting. The lighting of a render, or a picture of any kind, is the be-all or end-all of the entire story; even with a crappy subject, if you light it well, it'll be a killer.

Too true. The lights make the render, not the other way around. One particular example is when I was making an animation of a Stringray from Battletech (it was just flying by the camera, not interesting at all...) supposedly in space. When this finished rendering, the ship looked like it was flying through a garage due to the characteristics of the single light. Simply by tweaking a few settings, the ship suddenly looked as if it was flying through space.
At that point, I had not gotten around to adding stars

[Wildfire]

That a GOTP render, War?

[Setekh]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Too true. The lights make the render, not the other way around. One particular example is when I was making an animation of a Stringray from Battletech (it was just flying by the camera, not interesting at all...) supposedly in space. When this finished rendering, the ship looked like it was flying through a garage due to the characteristics of the single light. Simply by tweaking a few settings, the ship suddenly looked as if it was flying through space.
At that point, I had not gotten around to adding stars

I've got hundreds of stories like that. When it really boils down to the basics, there is nothing in your scene if it's not lit. That alone highlights the control that light holds over the scene.