"Digital Lighting and Rendering" by
Jeremy Birn is a book I just got from the mail the other day (it's the second edition one.) So far I've only had the time to read about 50 pages of it and I'm already learning so much stuff from it.
If you are a serious 3D artist, I urge you to read this book. It's a tad expensive, but it's worth every penny.It was only listed as "recommended reading" for my Materials and Lighting class but quite honestly, it should have been mandatory. It covers all sorts of knowledge from film lighting, 3D lighting regardless of packages, etc... It explains how lighting works from an artist standpoint and what you can do to simulate it for whatever feel you're going for (dunno about you, but I'm sure as hell listening to advice from a technical lighting director from Pixar.)
Even if you don't want to do 3D lighting for a living, all of this information is important to know: a good teacher of mine once said that even if you're just doing a 3D modeling portfolio, if the lighting setup is crap then it's going to make your models look horrible (briefly put: you're still going to be jobless.)
You know what you must do,
fellow-3D-artists-who-still-don't-understand-jack-about-lighting!

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I'm a big YYH, HxH, Ouran Host Club, Houshin Engi, Saiyuki and Gravitation fan. I also love yaoi. <3 I have a blood elf hunter on WoW too on the gilneas server if you wanna look me up. :3
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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I'm a big YYH, HxH, Ouran Host Club, Houshin Engi, Saiyuki and Gravitation fan. I also love yaoi. <3 I have a blood elf hunter on WoW too on the gilneas server if you wanna look me up. :3
and so i set my trap.........
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If all you do is worship the awesomeness of something without figuring out how it works, it will always be mightier than you -DL
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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"Talent is like the shooter that hits a target the others can't reach; genius is like the shooter that hits a target the others can't see." -- Schopenhauer
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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BLOOP~
The Gypsy Queen Extraordinaire
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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I'm a happy fat bad bat cat.
And I got a not so happy but still quite happy low-fat bad bat cat.
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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I'm a happy fat bad bat cat.
And I got a not so happy but still quite happy low-fat bad bat cat.
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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I'm a happy fat bad bat cat.
And I got a not so happy but still quite happy low-fat bad bat cat.
Level design is awesome though, I'm taking that class right now (even though I'm not really good at it.) What kind of games are looking forward to designing?
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
Overall, I think I'll be happy once I can just get something done and published, even if I just worked on one particular thing. I'll be able to sit back and say, "That building there...yeah...I made that one" lol.
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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KOOL CLUBS:
~JuJi-vs-Chef ~Telos-Versus-Dani *SHARK-ARMY ~KILLERWHALE-ARMY
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
Long time no speak, hope all is well with you and your insanity. Lot's O goings on 'on my side' for upcoming shit I think. Gonna be hella hell but filled with inspiration. I wish that to you as well. Always wishing the best to you my friend
CheerZ
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BLOOP~
The Gypsy Queen Extraordinaire
Cheers to you Wade-o!
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We don't love "because", but "despite".
This is why there is no such thing as perfect. A flawless beauty would be blank without any appeal nor character. Its scars are what defines it and what inspires emotion... from that moment, it becomes art.
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