Introduction to Cinema 4D
Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender: HDRI lights
By Francisco Cabezas
About the video: HDRI lights
Overview
“In this lesson we will illuminate our scene from a high dynamic range image (HDRI). These types of lights are created from a sky to which we will add our image. These lights will give us a wide range of nuances within our scene.”
In this video lesson Francisco Cabezas addresses the topic: HDRI 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 we will learn how to illuminate our scene from a high dynamic range image. I show you. Let's see now a series of lights, are called HDRI, what they're going to do is create us an environment as if it were, let's say that, an infinite ball that will be around our scene and that will illuminate inwards. Let's make an example to understand it better. There are many pages where you can get that type of HDRI. To me one of the most I like is HDRI Haven, that's good, you can have a lot of HDRI free, and then, if you pay a little, you can get as HDRI exclusive and online access, but ...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Materials, Cameras, and Lighting with OctaneRender

Francisco Cabezas
By Francisco Cabezas
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