Hey guys, can anyone recommend any good articles, tutorials or interesting reading specifically on environment lighting?? In particular, I'm working on an outdoor scene right now, but I'd be interested in reading anything that was specifically aimed at lighting environments, and the artistic side of environment lighting…
http://www.cybergooch.com/tutorials/pages/lighting_rfom1.htm this article is pretty awesome and really has some interesting technical info in there as well. When lighting enviros I tend to kinda paint with color/value to make the composition look awesome and add some light sources that look believable to have that…
Honestly, the best thing you can do is find a couple Photography books, in particular Landscape photography books, and study those. Start researching landscape painters and study their paintings asking yourself what mood they're portraying and more importantly, how they are doing it. I know it feels like I'm suggesting…
Hourences book has a really good section on lighting, both exterior and interior. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hourences The Hows & Whys of Level Design is the one you want.
Nice, thanks. Not sure if I'm prepared to jump in and spend 20 bucks on it just yet (not sure how many pages are actually dedicated to lighting?), but definitely tempted. Anyone else?
Wow, look what I found! http://www.game-artist.net/forums/view.php?pg=leveldesignsample (sorry for the link to another forum - hope its not against the rules?) Can anyone confirm if this is the *entire* lighting chapter?
I just remembered this site which has some interesting stuff: http://www.erco.com/products/download/index/index_3620/en/en_index_dltut_1.php Be sure to check out the Printed Media section, there are a bunch of PDFs that go into great detail about architectural lighting, especially this one.