Visual Storytelling for 3D ArchViz

Lighting of a Scene with an HDRI Dome

A course by Sonny Holmberg , Architect and Visualization Artist

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2,599 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Lighting of a Scene with an HDRI Dome

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn to light up your scene with an HDR image in a VRay Dome Light.”

In this video lesson Sonny Holmberg addresses the topic: Lighting of a Scene with an HDRI Dome, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling for 3D ArchViz. Create a realistic architectural visualization by rendering a sharp composition using 3ds Max, V-Ray and RailClone.

Partial transcription of the video

“Lighting of Scene Using an HDRI Dome In this lesson, I will show you how to light up our scene. We will be using an HDR daylight image to illustrate the principle of lighting up our scene with a V-Ray dome light. And HDR is a high dynamic range image. It contains a lot more information than a normal 8-bit image. This gives full control over our light in the scene when having multiple exposures. An HDR image can be either 32 or 16-bit. The dome light is used to create a light as a seamless fare around our scene, which means that we can use a 360 image to light up the scene as a realistic env...”

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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling for 3D ArchViz

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (101)
2599 students
5 units
22 lessons (3h 20m)
13 downloads

Category
Architecture & Spaces
Software
3ds Max, V-Ray
Areas
3D, ArchVIZ, Digital Architecture

Sonny Holmberg

A course by Sonny Holmberg

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Architect and Visualization Artist

Sonny Holmberg is a Danish architect and visualization artist. After studying architecture at the Aalborg University in Denmark, he went on to work as a visualization artist for Henning Larsen Architects in Munich, and a few years later as a 3D artist at Pixelflakes Architectural Marketing in London. After six years abroad, Sonny moved back to Copenhagen and started his own visualization studio, Depth Per Image, which specializes in crafting visual storytelling for architects.

Since 2019, Depth Per Image has worked with clients such as Arkitena, SQ1, Terroir, Störmer Murphy and Partners, Morris+Company, Lundhagem, Tulinus Lind, Loci, Jürgen Engel Architekten, CF Møller Architects, and Sweco. Sonny’s work has received international recognition, such as a nomination for best commissioned image at the CGarchitect 3D Awards in 2020. His work has also been exhibited in the Tromsø Museum and North West Museum and Art Gallery, Terroir.