Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone has some hints for creating and eye lights/catchlights? 

In the real world I'd just put a small light somewhere near the camera and let it reflect in an actor's eyes. I can do something similar with a light in IC7 but it always seems to be a struggle to get it in the right place to get a catchlight in the eye. Plus it seems as if to be bright enough to show up in their eyes, it needs to be bright enough to affect the rest of the lighting. 

Am I missing something or is this just unreasonably hard to do in iClone?

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Yes, it's not so easy to make without messing up overall lights. Try to enable a capsule for the spot light. Play with its shape. That would allow to bring the multiplier down a bit. Play with Range and angle. Disable shadow for the light. And when satisfied attach the light to the head.

I'm using fairly close point lights with a shape of Rectangle or Tube, in combination with one of the IES files that you can select. I go for Spotlight usually.

The Strength goes way down, around 0.1, depending on the situation. I also adjust the color from white to some darker shade. Here is an example:

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And make sure that the "Roughness" setting is adjusted for a PBR or Digital Human eye/cornea texture as well. I also added a "soft-circle" image map to the Light Texture so I could have a round catch-light instead of a square one. In the old days I'd just put an "Obie-Light" on the camera ;)







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Thanks everyone. I've played around with it a bit more and it's a little frustrating that I can't add an eye light without affecting the rest of the lighting but I'll live I guess. Maybe it'll get easier in IC8...




Jeff Kirkland | Director • Cinematographer • Storyteller
Hobart • Tasmania • www.one18films.com
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