Thanks everyone for the replies, I'll be taking them all into account for the next stretch of work I do. I did a little bit more work after posting, trying to put stuff I researched on my own into practice. I tried setting up some shapes and lights in 3DS max to see if that would help with finding the right colors to paint…
I was looking through my ref folder and found this, it's a real world example of how lighting affects what you see: Taken from here, there's more images: http://www.artinstructionblog.com/color-studies-part-3-the-influences-of-the-environment-on-color
Made a quick example. also remember: the glow in the eyes wouldn't change color just because light shines on it, the glow is light as well. Light doesn't multiply, it ads. It would mostly become brighter rather then change color that much. note that it might look a bit strange now, since its only one object. but if you…
I was wondering if anyone here could share any advice on lighting multiple characters in a scene? I'm having a hard time getting results I like. For example, I have a bunch of wacky creatures like this... And this is what they look like just under regular non-colored lighting and all. But then, I want to put them in an…