How to Get AWESOME Car Lighting in Blender!

Showing you a technique for lighting cars in Blender.
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00:00 - Car Light Scenes
01:27 - More is Available
01:41 - Studio Environments
02:25 - Making a Scene
03:29 - Room Materials
04:57 - Creative Material Adjustments
06:01 - Ceiling Light Gradient
07:40 - First Composition Thoughts
07:57 - Compositor / Bloom
08:34 - Mood and Color
09:12 - Adjusting Camera Pose
09:21 - Balancing Reflectivity and Color
10:16 - Invisible Emissive Lights (Juicy)
12:00 - Posing Invisible Lights
12:53 - Volumetrics
13:14 - Invisible Emissive Color Gradients
14:46 - Emissive Lights in Reflections
15:11 - Potential for Animating Light Rigs
15:30 - A Check In
15:38 - Compositor Nodes
16:01 - Improvising
17:04 - Talking About the Techniques and Product
17:53 - More for Members and Patrons
18:14 - The Final Look
18:38 - Closing Thoughts
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[@Wendy3Dimensional]

7:50 I love the gradient on the ceiling to get that cool lighting.

[@WaterShowsProd]

We used to light and shoot cars for internal videos for BMW and Volvo, and I can tell you that invisible lights and stands would have been a tremendous help! Also, in Blender you don't have to worry about the camera and jib casting shadows or reflections.
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[@Wendy3Dimensional]

13:50 I love a good color ramp. 🥰

[@RTKdarling]

So great to watch you work. I know it can be weird to just go for it and riff on camera, but it's so illustrative of the processes!

[@bububirb]

Amazing rundown! Glad to have you back 🚗

[@lena96969]

Yeyyy nice that you're back! When you gave the ceiling the trans sunset colors I instantly got inspired! I did some experiments with making a studio out of screens (Mandalorian style) and projecting an HDRI on them but I couldn't really get good results out of it. Maybe you can make "the screen as lights" idea work. It would also be fun to see you build exterior presets like this if you'd feel like it. There is a lot to explore with just sunlight alone.

[@adityarajput9904]

Great tutorial Curtis! 🚗🚗🚗🚗

[@emileschnabel7644]

🏎️ Hi Curtis. I am impressed with results you obtained with the lighting. I like the emotion it creates. Thank

[@Motion_e]

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Thank you for sharing! I always struggle with car lighting, even when all I do in Blender is car/liveries renders. But, I learned some useful tricks from the video that I can apply to my own renders and give them a bit more "oomph" (for lack of a better word).

[@KevinMerinoCreations]

Great Video! 🚙 One of the best work experiences I have had related to becoming proficient in CG lighting is working for a furniture manufacturing and marketing company. Working in a studio environment with a real world photographer shed all kinds of balanced light (pun intended) onto what it means to create a mood through the use of light! 👏👏👏

[@CurtisHolt]

Thanks Kevin! 🤗

[@CGbird]

That's a great video, I learned a lot about lighting! I will implement the futures in my next car renders. Thank you ^^).

[@VertexRage]

🏎 very cool stuff :)

[@CGPython]

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Thanks for sharing Curtis!
Can't wait to try this out!
The room makes such a difference and these invisible lights
I love it!

[@kjelm]

🚗 Thanks

[@Wendy3Dimensional]

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[@aadish_1999]

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[@Just3DThings]

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