Introduction to Cinema 4D

Overview

“We will see how to create one of the most used lights in 3D stage lighting. The area lights are going to behave like photography spotlights and we can easily change their size, power or temperature of the light.”

In this video lesson Francisco Cabezas addresses the topic: Area lights, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender. Bring your project to life by adding lights, cameras, and materials.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I will show you how to work with the area lights and we will see how and how to configure them. Follow me. Let's start to see how the lights work within Cinema 4D. I've left this file in a link, so you can download it and follow what I'm doing so we can see how they work. The first thing we have to do, to see what we're doing, I mean, to see how a light is working, is to open a window that's here, Octane, Live Viewer Window. If it does not work when opened, first open Octane Settings, because first you have to load Octane and, once it loads, we can do everything else. So if ...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender

• Level: Beginner
• 12 students
• 15 units
• 16 lessons (2h 7m)
• 3 downloads