With GI and PBR, I’ve found that I just turn off the stock key and rim lights and just use an IBL set very low. Then I’ll use practical lighting for scenes. If there’s a lamp or lights on the ceiling I’ll put a spot light or use one of the built in light props. If the shadows are too bad on the character’s face I’ll add another light to take them away. There’s an art to lighting no matter what software you choose. I’ve only scratched the surface of lighting.

There’s a guy on here you can look up Small Wonder studios on YouTube. Mark has some very well lit Film Noir shorts. I’ve always been impressed with his lighting and overall work. The last film I have posted on my YouTube doesn’t look as good in the lighting dept as the ones I made for festivals this past yeAr. If you keep making films, you’ll constantly be learning something with iclone. I had zero experience like most of the guys here and made a film in no time. It really is easy with iclone. Amazing set of tools for the price.

You can go super deep and use the curve editor with mocap for your motions, key frame with the curve editor, or just tweak stock animations chaining them together with different transition curves. It’s really up to you how deep you want to go with iclone. There are plenty of people on here that make crazy stunning vids and I wonder if I have the same Rev! Lots of talented folks really pushing the limits of the software. No matter what software you choose, you’ll have to put in the time.

What’s really nice is that the talented folks on the forum are super willing to help and answer questions. Many of the guys that chimed in here on this thread have great animations they made and they’re open books on techniques. They certainly helped me out a time or two million! That’s pretty tough to beat.

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Thanks for the kind words kung' but I still have a long way to go to learn about lighting that lighting thang :D:P



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Anytime Mark! There’s a bunch of crazy talented folks in this forum, I literally wonder if they have a different version of iclone! The stuff that you guys on this forum make shows how much you can really do with iclone. Keep in pushing the envelope folks! We’ll b watching :)

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Here's a movie that is only rendered with iClone. And it does not look so bad.

I think it looks pretty good niko' !!!I In fact very good.. a few comments made by others offer some helpful tips... but this is great! ;)



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