☀️ Blender lighting §

Attributes §

• Specular: How much shinyness the light produces
• Diffuse: Amount of scattering from the light

Types §

Area §

Use case: §

• Big light sources
• e.g.: monitors, neon, windows
• softer light

Environment light §

Emitted light §

• Light, that’s emitted from objects
• Glowing effect

Key (main light)

• Use case:
  • Light up the scene
• Direction:
  • front
  • 30 degrees
  • light from top
  • white/yellow
• styles:
  • organic: warm color
  • tech: cold
• blender:
  • spec?, shadow

Fill light

• Use case:
  • support key light and light otherwise black areas
• styles:
  • organic: cold color
  • tech: warm color
• blender:
  • no spec, no shadow

Rim Light

• Use case:
  • create bright lines along shilouette
  • separate background from foreground
• behind the object
• blender
  • speculars, no shadows?