Yet another shot: Acrobat here is feeling out of his element in this fantasy forest. 

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I like the way you lit the scene!
 

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Ah, thanks. I spend a lot of time on lighting, because it can do so much to make a scene better in terms of mood, ambience and focus. But I also spend a lot of time because I don't know fully what I am doing and have to use a lot of trial-and-error to get a result I like.:

The potential for lighting is really strong in Iclone 7, and I wish there were some advanced tutorials on it. 

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I think you do a nice job of lighting Cary.
Like you say, there's a ton of potential for what can be achieved - but when you're doing *all the other things* production wise, it can spread you a bit thin.
I think simple is best.

If the iClone spots behaved exactly the same as their real world counterparts - everything would become very 'intuitive' imo.
You can use a *real world* "Fresnel" spotlight as a Key-light, Back-light, Rim-light, Bounce-light, Fill-light, Spill-Light etc ..... It can be level Controlled (dimmed), gel Filtered, Barn-Door'd, Gobo'd, Flagged, Focussed, Softened, etc.
They're just so versatile.
But anyway - in iClone, it's really just a matter of 'emulating' the intended light sources within the scene (whether sun, moon, fire, candle, torch, room-light, street-light, etc).


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I am not all that experienced with real-world lighting. And I'm not sure how much real-world knowledge would translate into Iclone.

Since a lot of my recent scenes have been night scenes,I have struggled to find ways to get them lit in ways that illuminate key areas but not lose the overall sense of night. I like to blend light from different angles and sources, In the above shot, the main source is the firelight, with some moonlight coming in from the side. But it takes a lot of tweaking and adjusting to get the light to blend like you want so the 3d figures are modeled well and get a nice rim effect. I often have to use extra lights to blend in, and it is always is a trade-off. 

I had hopes that the global illumination would make things easier, but I don't know how to use it that well. Like I said, I wish there were more tutorials on lighting.

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Another shot from upcoming Episode Six...a shaggy nightmare stalks the heroes. 

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looking good!
Keep'm coming!

Gary

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Sometimes certain scenes in my project just seem to cry out to be turned intro comic book covers. So...I couldn't resist  After all these years it's still fun to mess around with comics. 
One a real cover, the figures would need to be larger, but I mostly liked the composition on this shot, and I wanted the tops on those trees kind of framing the logo. 

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Nice! keep up the good work can't wait for 6 

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Certainly 'looks just the part' Cary. - All you need is a 5c price-tag printed on it! 




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