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Greenlaw- so jealous you got to meet those guys and hear them talk about their process!

Greenlaw wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:11 pm They did show off a custom program that was really cool.

I could be wrong but I always understood it to be MOE and HouDoo custom developed for SPA into KLaS: http://lesfilmsdupoissonrouge.com/logiciels/?lang=en

If only those programs were available to play with!

@Luke Marcatili, thanks for sharing the link! Yes, I would love to be able to play around with some of their tools.

Following the prompting of some people on Youtube I finally got around to finishing my tutorial/overview showing how this lighting method works.

I'm definitely no pro Youtuber.


youtube.com/watch?v=rtl5KVs_Fkw

This is a pretty complex setup, but hopefully you all can get some useful ideas out of it!

Let me know what you think.

Timestamps
0:00 Start
0:40 The Basics
2:12 Photoshop Prep
2:54 Light Controls
4:24 Base Value Control
5:00 Light Blur
5:29 Rim Light
5:47 Rim Light Blur
6:48 Layers
7:25 Light Layer Masking
8:48 Light Layer Setup
10:41 Light Layer Head Turn
11:33 Light Layer Smart Bones- Opacity & Blur Settings
13:43 Ambient Fill
15:15 Ambient Fill Gradient Settings
16:47 Ambient Fill Controls
18:05 Ambient Fill Blending Modes
19:16 Ambient Fill Size
19:44 Gradient Controls (for Light Layers)
22:50 Multiple Light Layers- Issues
25:15 Subsurface Scattering

Great lighting setup! The gradient and ambient fill controls are genius.

Thanks Wes!

Wow, thanks for putting that together! Very impressive, yet very intimidating!

Thanks @alanthebox. Hopefully not too intimidating!

If you wanted to simplify this down I think the key ingredients are the base value layer, a single light source gradient and another ambient fill type gradient to fill in the shadows with a bit of bounce light. You wouldn't necessarily need the light shapes unless you want a more realistic sense of form & shadow and you wouldn't necessarily need the sub-surface scattering. I think a lot could be done with just a few of the ideas here, especially for more stylised work.

Hi Luke - can you pls repost your video? I'm getting a 404 error. Thanks - very excited to see this!! =]

Gnaws wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:23 pm Hi Luke - can you pls repost your video? I'm getting a 404 error.... =]

Unbelievably .. Google / YouTube had a multi-hour outage earlier - which may have been the cause of the 404 error.

The video seems to be accessible now, but here it is again anyway:



Enjoy!

FANTASTIC!! Thank you so much!

Looking forward to trying to digest this. =]