Mastering the Fundamentals of Iray Lighting and Rendering

You’ve finally achieved the perfect scene in Daz Studio only to discover that it’s not rendering the way you thought it would, or should. Why is everything so dark? Why are the shadows going in the wrong direction?

Wonder no more! Landon Lopez, aka LayLo 3D, will demonstrate to you multiple ways of lighting your scene… Professional Three-Point Lighting, HDRI Lighting, Sky-Dome Lighting as well as producing light by using objects with emissive shaders.

Three-Point Lighting

Professional visual media such as theatre, video, film and still photography use a basic system known as three-point lighting and now you’ll understand it too. Know the purpose of the key, fill and back lights, what they’re all supposed to do, and how they work to complement each other. What intensities of light should you start with? How to create and save this set-up in Daz Studio.

HDR Lighting

HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Image, which uses a composited image of different exposure values and stores a wider range of colors and levels of brightness. Find out the advantages and uses of these unique images, where to find free HDR images and how to use them in your scene. (By-the-way, did you know that most smart phones will take a HDR image?)

Landon Lopez (LayLo_3D) takes you through Mastering the three basic lighting techniques in Daz Studio and then on to rendering your scene with your lighting. It clearly demonstrates and explains what lights are available, what the setting parameters do, and how to best use them.

He then goes on to cover the Render Settings, Rendering Canvases (which can be used to tweak your lighting inside a graphic program such as Photoshop or Nuke) without the need to re-render your scene, as well as nVidia Draw Style.

What’s Included:

This Tutorial also includes a Bonus Video on the basic lights available within Daz Studio.

Bonus Video (should be viewed first), running time: 15 minutes

Tutorial Running Time: 127 minutes

Both videos are fully indexed allowing you to jump to key points within the video and include a PDF of the same index allowing you to keep notes of relevant time codes for your own reference.

A PDF Reference of sources for Latitude/Longitude and UTC; Free HDR Images; IES Profiles (mathematical expressions of real-life lights) used within the Webinar; Additional IES Profiles.

https://www.daz3d.com/mastering-the-fundamentals-of-iray-lighting-and-rendering