Wow, I can't tell you how awesome this is. Lighting is a topic wrapped in black cloth and hidden in a box and dumped at the bottom of the sea, so thank you for shedding a light!!
Brent you're a lifesaver, I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my area light is so weak it's barely visible, simply turning off normalize and voila it actually finally works properly, always the way - one little tick box.
Wow, you made the best lighting tutorial ever. You should start taking donations! I'm sure people would appreciate your efforts. You were able to cover more than my lecturer at uni
This is by far one of the best tutorials I've seen in years. Not that other people post stuff that is not worth my time. It's that this was good. Hats off!
Thank you so much for this tutorial, my professor talked about this for four hours over complicating it and you were able to make it so much clearer. Once again thank you so much
Honestly, mate, this video is amazing! My Uni gives me these others based on older versions of Maya which do an alright job, but these show a level of artistry way beyond those! I look forward to seeing more of your work as time goes on, especially if there are more videos on lighting. Keep being awesome!
Thank you so much !!!! I always thought arnold had just the intensity , color and exposure options, you really helped me !! And the lighting guide is useful for drawing too , thank youu ! You won a subscriber
Fantastic! I am coming from Blender to Maya and boy this is helpful man! The ease with what I can now plan the scene with that light blocking... ow boy, loving it. Thank you so much! I can imagine youre a busy person but hope you will show some Maya tips in the future still. Have a good one!
amazng videos! will save it for later, i want to try getting some bsics to render my animatio shots without depending much on others. this is awesome! I'm just having an issue...all of my materials are arnold materials, but I can't manage to get my character casts chadows on the surface she is on.
hi Brent, how are you ? your tuts are really amazing,,,,,,,,,,,, can you make a tutorial on making a realistic glass that has fingerprints and smudges on it?(in any software and rendering engine)....................... I am really trying it hard but not getting that realistic smudgy look................... my render looks kind of powder been added on top of glass but not that smudgy look. thanks, Bhuwan sharma
Very very useful, thank you so much :) Tho I couldn't upload the object downloaded from MyMiniFactory to Maya. Could you suggest me how to do it? Thank you very much
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! i tried to download the burst of david but for some reason my maya wouldn't let me, could you tell me if you downloaded it in a different way?
Great tutorial Brent! I noticed you turn off your Render as you make changes to the light. Is there a reason for this? Like to save on memory or Maya's stability.
Thanks Cheyne! I turn it off and on for stability. Sometimes I've noticed that Maya will crash when I'm toggling settings with IPR active. Just a habit I suppose.
Yeah, Arnold is really an incredible renderer. Very easy to get up to speed and get good results. I've heard that Arnold is developing an XPU pipeline soon. Which would be a combination of GPU and CPU
Hey Brent, great tutorial thank you for this. I really appreciate your style, it's nice to watch a tutorial for a change that is concise and straight to the point. And a tutorial that has decent audio. Man, I cannot stress that enough! Nothing frustrates me more than trying to watch a video with crappy buzzing sound sort weird Echoes or God knows what else. And I really appreciate the time factor. I hate watching one-hour videos that could have been done in 20-minutes! I mean it's nice that people take the time to produce videos but if you can't articulate what you want to say without putting in a ton of "um's" and "ahs" and awkward pauses, then maybe those people should rehearse a bit LOL. Yeah, I'm an old cranky Maya artist, can you tell? Haha, too many long nights sitting in front of the computer, too many long days trying to get stuff done, too many deadlines. So yeah, I guess I have turned into an impatient cranky old bastard who likes to complain. Bahahaha, this was meant to be a compliment LOL keep up the good work man. It was refreshing to watch and learn something new, without getting frustrated.
@@BrentLeBlancCG Actually, there is something I've been wondering about. I'm working on a personal project and I need to create some Terrains. I want to create a couple wide shots, panoramics. So I was thinking of using displacement Maps to create some large mountain ranges in the background of the shots. I'm not quite sure how to deal with displacement in Arnold, and how to set up Lighting in Arnold with atmospheric Haze. Back in the day I used Mental Ray, and I would just bring in a fluid container and render that out as a layer and comp it into my final render in After Effects. But I think things must be different now with Arnold. I've got some fantastic displacement maps for mountains, I'm just not sure how to use them in Maya with Arnold. Thanks, Robert Waterworth
Thank you for for your tutorial. When it comes to a website, do I have to pay if I want to import the file into maya? I downloaded it In free and maya couldn't read stl file..T.T
Man this really really makes me wanna render my stuff in arnold but I just can’t get my materials looking right in arnold just as they do in substance. I’ve been avoiding figuring it out and just rendering my shit in marmoset, but I really wanna learn how to render in Arnold properly. It has something to do with color space maybe idk. Does anyone have an idea what I’m talking about? Would really appreciate it
In the Render Settings you can set any resolution you'd like if you set it to custom size. Then you can just type in a portrait aspect ratio. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the tutorial, I got more from this than 3 years at Uni
Literally same!
Wow, I can't tell you how awesome this is. Lighting is a topic wrapped in black cloth and hidden in a box and dumped at the bottom of the sea, so thank you for shedding a light!!
So I've lighting like a noob for like 3 years. Awesome information and video. Thanks!
when he said 'oh noo' i felt that
Hahah, yes it is always painful
classic Maya lol
Possibly the first proper video on lighting theoriticals I've found. Thanks a lot for this wonderful share !!!
Thanks NewAge! I'm so glad that people are finding this useful!
Brent you're a lifesaver, I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my area light is so weak it's barely visible, simply turning off normalize and voila it actually finally works properly, always the way - one little tick box.
Wow, you made the best lighting tutorial ever. You should start taking donations! I'm sure people would appreciate your efforts. You were able to cover more than my lecturer at uni
Thank you so much! I'm glad you are liking it man. Your wish is my command, I've included a donation link in my banner on my youtube mainpage :D
What an amazing premium tutorial for free!
Thank you so much.
Learned many things!
I'm so glad you found it helpful! Thanks for watching. I just moved and getting settled in. New tutorials coming soon
Hahaha the crash at 16:26 ... and that's why you save every 1.5 minutes in Maya.
Very interesting lighting tutorial. Thanks!
Haha, Thanks Steven!
...and I have been using '7' in the viewport... to light my scene... Thank you so much for this tutorial!
This is by far one of the best tutorials I've seen in years. Not that other people post stuff that is not worth my time. It's that this was good. Hats off!
Thank you so much for this tutorial, my professor talked about this for four hours over complicating it and you were able to make it so much clearer. Once again thank you so much
Honestly, mate, this video is amazing! My Uni gives me these others based on older versions of Maya which do an alright job, but these show a level of artistry way beyond those! I look forward to seeing more of your work as time goes on, especially if there are more videos on lighting. Keep being awesome!
thanks for tutorial this is my first maya tutorial i have watched
and its inspiring
Glad to hear that!
Just discover your tutorials, thank you ! I mean it. Learning so much from you ! Cheers
Hey Emmanuel, I'm so glad you find it helpful. More to come!
Thank you so much !!!! I always thought arnold had just the intensity , color and exposure options, you really helped me !! And the lighting guide is useful for drawing too , thank youu ! You won a subscriber
Hey Ralukiz! I'm glad you enjoyed the tutorial, there always seems to be a few more things to learn. I feel like this everyday. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic! I am coming from Blender to Maya and boy this is helpful man! The ease with what I can now plan the scene with that light blocking... ow boy, loving it. Thank you so much! I can imagine youre a busy person but hope you will show some Maya tips in the future still. Have a good one!
Glad I could help!
Holy crap. Did not know about Light Blockers. Thanks!
Yeah, they are insanely useful haha.
That Maya crash though haha. Awesome tutorial man, the blockers are really useful!
Amazing and clear tutorials! I barely comment on youtube videos but man, such a great tutorial, so professional!
It helps me a lot for my school final project! Love your tutorial ! keep it up :D
Thanks, will do!
How!! This tutorial really help me to render my project. Thank u so much! You won a subscriber :D
Thank you Tamires! Glad it was helpful
Just found out about your channel, it's pure gold
Thank you
Hello John, I appreciate it! Thanks for watching.
Wow, this is a solidly made video. Quality channel! Glad to have found it.
Thanks Maniakra! Let me know if there are any topics you are interested in that I could cover.
@@BrentLeBlancCG For sure, I will likely have a question for you down the road. Just getting into Look Dev for film myself. Thanks.
Silo Lowman! what a model, still use him myself, great help by the way cheers
just lo e your work bravery helpful video ,lots of love from India
Glad it was helpful!
Omg...this is very helpful for me. Thank you so much!!
I'm so glad you found it useful Shulla. Thanks for watching!
Such a fantastic tutorial, thank you so much!
Thanks Charlotte!
seriously great tutorial, and nothing like the totally awesome fatal crash out of nowhere when you havent saved you scene in a while. thanks maya. lol
Amazing, thanks!
Thank you for tutorial ~ ! :) 감사합니다!
amazng videos! will save it for later, i want to try getting some bsics to render my animatio shots without depending much on others. this is awesome! I'm just having an issue...all of my materials are arnold materials, but I can't manage to get my character casts chadows on the surface she is on.
3:07 light falloff is affected by scale/size of model
4:40 normalize decouples scale and exposure
hi Brent, how are you ?
your tuts are really amazing,,,,,,,,,,,,
can you make a tutorial on making a realistic glass that has fingerprints and smudges on it?(in any software and rendering engine).......................
I am really trying it hard but not getting that realistic smudgy look...................
my render looks kind of powder been added on top of glass but not that smudgy look.
thanks,
Bhuwan sharma
Hey Bhuwan, yeah I think that's something I could do. Look for it in a future tutorial. Thanks for watching!
such an amazing tutorial, thanks bro
Thanks Walid!
Amazing video, I have subscribed and look forward for more amazing videos from you.
Thanks for watching!
incredible, thank you
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for sharing, great video.
wonderful tutorial! thank you so much
Thanks for watching Jacqueline!
Thanks for the tutorial :)
Brilliant ! Thank you so much :)
Just wow,🔥
thanks a lot for this tutorial 🔥
16:26 story of my Maya Career
Super like!! Amazing video
Amazing Tutorial
Thank you so much
Thanks!
Very useful! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
thank you so much, i bought a tut but it was not as clear as this. awsume
Thats a functional tutorial.
Is it possible to show the showcase-final thoughts in a different video but a bit slower? To study more the steps. Thank you.
Thanks a lot! Really usefull :)
Glad to hear that!
saved me, thanks!
Thanks for this tut 🔥💛
No problem. Thanks for watching!
Awesome! Thanks dude!
thanks for the vid! any new link to the lighting guide pdf please?
Very very useful, thank you so much :) Tho I couldn't upload the object downloaded from MyMiniFactory to Maya. Could you suggest me how to do it? Thank you very much
Really good.
I love making 3D model's !!
That's a clean one, what are the best render settings to avoid noise in the scene especially when there's fur elements in the scene?
Great tutorial :)
Appreciate it Francesco!
Great one
Thank you Mohamad!
great bro
I can't be the only one who saw the bright green, um.... "artifact" on the Scan the World shop there
Impressive video!
Thank you, Impressive Scan Library! :D
thanks.. very BIG thanks
good job men
thanks , additional ideas.
Would a widescreen or dual monitor be better?
Great ! Thanks 🙏
Thanks Amin!
Great tutorial. how do i decrease the noise?
Adjust the samples by incresing them
amazing work
really thank you for being in the world 😂😂👍👍👍
It's my pleasure
very useful thanks
Thank you Hamza! Glad you find it useful
Hello there, cool video. Could you explain how you set the parameters for the rendering? thanks
Hey Carlotta,
I'll try to explain how rendering parameters in the next video. However, I'm not doing anything overly complicated.
Cheers!
Brent Le Blanc thanks a lot, sorry I’m a self taught so everything is difficult for me cause I have no teachers 😅 but thanks 😁😁😁
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! i tried to download the burst of david but for some reason my maya wouldn't let me, could you tell me if you downloaded it in a different way?
Thanks! Make sure you activate STL addon in your plugins.
Clean tutorial .. wp
Great tutorial Brent! I noticed you turn off your Render as you make changes to the light. Is there a reason for this? Like to save on memory or Maya's stability.
Thanks Cheyne! I turn it off and on for stability. Sometimes I've noticed that Maya will crash when I'm toggling settings with IPR active. Just a habit I suppose.
@@BrentLeBlancCG A good habit too! :) I quickly added this to my workflow after several crashes. Cheers!
I was underestimating arnold for a long time. Btw I've heard they are making ArnoldGPU. Any options for upgrade from verion that I got with my Maya?
Yeah, Arnold is really an incredible renderer. Very easy to get up to speed and get good results. I've heard that Arnold is developing an XPU pipeline soon. Which would be a combination of GPU and CPU
Hey Brent, great tutorial thank you for this. I really appreciate your style, it's nice to watch a tutorial for a change that is concise and straight to the point. And a tutorial that has decent audio. Man, I cannot stress that enough! Nothing frustrates me more than trying to watch a video with crappy buzzing sound sort weird Echoes or God knows what else. And I really appreciate the time factor. I hate watching one-hour videos that could have been done in 20-minutes! I mean it's nice that people take the time to produce videos but if you can't articulate what you want to say without putting in a ton of "um's" and "ahs" and awkward pauses, then maybe those people should rehearse a bit LOL. Yeah, I'm an old cranky Maya artist, can you tell? Haha, too many long nights sitting in front of the computer, too many long days trying to get stuff done, too many deadlines. So yeah, I guess I have turned into an impatient cranky old bastard who likes to complain. Bahahaha, this was meant to be a compliment LOL keep up the good work man. It was refreshing to watch and learn something new, without getting frustrated.
Thank you Robert! I'm really glad you like it. Let me know if there is anything you want me to cover later. Cheers
@@BrentLeBlancCG Actually, there is something I've been wondering about. I'm working on a personal project and I need to create some Terrains. I want to create a couple wide shots, panoramics. So I was thinking of using displacement Maps to create some large mountain ranges in the background of the shots. I'm not quite sure how to deal with displacement in Arnold, and how to set up Lighting in Arnold with atmospheric Haze. Back in the day I used Mental Ray, and I would just bring in a fluid container and render that out as a layer and comp it into my final render in After Effects. But I think things must be different now with Arnold. I've got some fantastic displacement maps for mountains, I'm just not sure how to use them in Maya with Arnold.
Thanks,
Robert Waterworth
thank you for this:))
thanks!
Gracias :)
So blocker can be used for creating light beams. But is there any other way to create light beam?
You mean a light beam with volume? You would first need fog for the light to illuminate
very nice
Thanks Alvaro!
What is the render settings for this tutorial? Is it at default ?
Thanks Brent. You are a good teacher. How can i share my own follow-along with you.
Sure!
thyank you for this tuto! may i know your system config?
Thank you
Glad it was helpful Joy
May I ask where you got that real world scaled human model? It looks pretty handy
www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld
@@BrentLeBlancCG Thanks
quality content
Thank you Rahul!
could you upload the scene? could we use it as a prefab?
I don't tend to upload my assets, but I may do so in the future. Thanks!
How are you using the myminifactory meshes in maya. All I find are .stl files that Maya doesnt open?
You need to make sure that you have the stl extension active in your Maya Addons
Thank you for for your tutorial. When it comes to a website, do I have to pay if I want to import the file into maya? I downloaded it In free and maya couldn't read stl file..T.T
on the import window (cmd + i) change file type to stl import
at 8:08 i didnt have the transform do u know why?
Hey "Unrecognized error" even after enabling that STL plugin idk whats the issue , even after restart -Maya 2020 student version
Hmm, not sure tbh
Man this really really makes me wanna render my stuff in arnold but I just can’t get my materials looking right in arnold just as they do in substance. I’ve been avoiding figuring it out and just rendering my shit in marmoset, but I really wanna learn how to render in Arnold properly. It has something to do with color space maybe idk. Does anyone have an idea what I’m talking about? Would really appreciate it
Yeah Arnold is fantastic. I'd study up on OpenColor.io
That green 'toy' at 0:32 doesn't look very safe - the base isn't as wide as the rest of it so it could get 'lost'.
I think someone is trolling the scan library :X
It's "Tree" from Paul McCarthy, it was in Paris :)
@@rachidroux3679 Oh, haha. Thanks for the clarification Rachid. My lack of culture is showing. 😂
Link is down for the Lighting Guide.
Aww, that's unfortunate. Any film photography works, you can look at cinematography for film as well as great reference.
In my Maya (2020 version) I don't see the 'New Group' option. Do I need to enable it anywhere?
Not sure if this is still available.
Nice. But I cant access your lighting guide image :(
Oh, thats a shame. It's likely the website stopped hosting the image.
@@BrentLeBlancCG How can I have that image sir?
how did you do a vertical render? going crazy over here xd
In the Render Settings you can set any resolution you'd like if you set it to custom size. Then you can just type in a portrait aspect ratio. Hope that helps!