With just a few simple settings (and a lot of extra time) you too can create much more realistic lighting in your scenes. I am working in Cinema 4D release 8.2, and have found the setting below to produce results that I am pretty happy with in a fair amount of time.

You can download my file [ 613k ] and mess around all you want. Try adjusting the values to suit your needs, or just to experiment with how it effects the look or render time. Model found at 3dtotal.

Working here at Scecon, I have picked up lots of ‘real-world’ knowledge. I would like to pass some of this along to you, boys and girls.

Today we will be learning about backgrounds for television broadcasting. A 15 black/85 white mix will appear white on camera. A pretty standard range is 40%-60% black. Then they can do all sorts of fancy lighting and whatnot to it to their hearts content.

So there that is.

Pen

The shadows of a girl standing a bright light.

Pen

A girl standing in the light. I wanted to play with light and dark in this sketch.

Photoshop

Playing around with effects in Photoshop.