Environment Building in Cinema 4D and Octane

Overview

“In this lesson, you'll learn how to strategically place lights to illuminate your VDB clouds effectively without affecting other elements in your scene. You'll also understand how to use Octane tags to control light influence on specific objects. Finally, you'll ensure that your plants and other elements are correctly oriented and prepared for final rendering adjustments.”

In this video lesson Nina Marie addresses the topic: Adding Clouds and Extra Lighting to the Scene 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Environment Building in Cinema 4D and Octane. Design stunning imaginary worlds with World Creator, Cinema 4D, Octane, and Photoshop. Elevate your portfolio with immersive environments..

Partial transcription of the video

“So I ended up actually changing my VDB volume to the 125 cloud and I actually did something which is I think so cool that we can do this with VDBs is that I made an instance of the volume. So if I turn all of these on you can see all these bounding boxes. They're basically the actual volume and all I did was I clicked here, I clicked on instance and then I was able to physically move another copy of this around and I can scale this and I can do everything I want to do without the computer having to completely recalculate the new volume because it's a copy of the original. So I think that's ...”

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Course summary for: Environment Building in Cinema 4D and Octane

• Level: Intermediate
• 100% positive reviews (5)
• 249 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (4h 42m)

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D, OctaneRender, Substance Painter, ZBrush

• Areas

  3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling