Lighting studies.

rgbeard

Hi!

I want to improve my lighting both technically and artistic, so I will challenge myself with some different types of lighting.
The main focus will be to take reference and recreate that as good as I can. Adding some things that I think improves upon it.

First challenge is to recreate some lighting scenarios from Taboo.
Luckily my classmate Michael Hansen : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6XVor
made a James Delaney bust for his portfolio that I could use for the studies.
Thank you!

If you also want to improve on your lighting, you can hopefully learn with me. All lighting feedback and questions are welcome.

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Then by using the realistic character scene that Epic have in there learn section of UE4.
I changed those material with skin and hair to Michaels textures.

Then I changed the camera to a cinematic one and tried different setting and redid lighting from scratch with point lights.
Added a plane with a book shelf to try as background.

rgbeard

Learned a lot from the last one, so tried something more low key here.

rgbeard

Did some more studies today. I really enjoy doing lighting, those first key lights. Creating the shapes. Yeah.

rgbeard

Practicing lighting with some studies tonight. I used a new character model (you can try it yourself by looking at the marketplace in Unreal Engine).

rgbeard

Some more fast studies.


I was going for a lighter kinder wib with this top one.


Here a more monstrous but not evil feeling.
I find it hard but fun to play around with a feeling or a theme with these.

mrgesy

Awesome stuff. I like the low key lighting mysterious look. Changing the focal length of the camera really gives it a cinematic look. Though the hair really takes out some of the realism from the first model.

rgbeard

Thank you @mrgesy . Yeah the camera and light work a lot together, I'm learning a lot about that while doing this.