need some tips on lighting exterior animation

[chow choppe]

Hi everyone

 

can anyone her share lighting tips for an exterior animation which has residential towers and we will be taking aerial shots also and a few eye level shots

 

till now we have been using one direct light and sky in vray

 

we would like to try some more interesting lighting tips which u people use in your renderings

 

please suggest some

 

thanks

[kippu]

for an exterior animation , i am sure whatever works on a still will work... unless you are going for a timelapse

[chow choppe]

i am asking for a different lighting approach. Till now what worked for stills for us was already working for our animations but if u read my thread carefully i am asking for sharing lighting setups that people may have given a try which is not so "standard"

[pumbaa]

Edit: Oops, just realized this post was centuries old.

 

I am pretty new in this part of 3d town, but a lighting technique I enjoy using, at least for interiors, is a VRay sphere light acting as the sun, toggled invisibility and no decay. Radius controls softness of shadows.

For sky, create sphere and apply VRay light material with a sky texture in the light slot, increase the amount quite a bit.

 

Not sure how well this works with either exteriors or animation though.

 

Good luck!

Edited June 1, 2011 by pumbaa