Mini Project : Environment Lighting using HDRI

I worked on this project to create an image to commemorate the joining of the 400'th member on the Facebook that I moderate called Blender Knowledge Base.

Software Used: 

Blender 2.58a

Techniques used:

• Shading
• Glossy materials with ray traced reflections using the world map
• Lighting
• Sun light with atmosphere
• Ambient Occlusion (Multiply mode)
• Environment Lighting (Gather: Raytrace, Angular map)

Setup:

Blender Scene File

Rendered with only Direct Lighting (Sun light)

Rendered with only Environment Lighting (Angular mapped HDRI)

Added Ambient Occlusion (Multiply mode)

Turned on the Direct Lighting from Sun Lamp (With default atmosphere setting on)

Enabled Ray traced reflections

Glossy Reflections from the shader

Environment lighting without falloff

Environment lighting with falloff

References : Matte Painting

Hello Folks.

My recent project is on figuring out a workflow for 2D/3D Matte Painting using Blender. Following are some links that I found useful during my research.

General

• http://www.mographwiki.net/Matte_Painting
  

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_matte_artist

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection
  

FxGuide Articles

• http://www.fxguide.com/featured/matte_painting_series_part_1_painting_it_big/

• http://www.fxguide.com/featured/matte_painting_part_2_the_tools/

• http://www.fxguide.com/featured/matte_painting_part_3_the_art/

• http://www.fxguide.com/featured/matte_painting_part_4_future_of_matte_painting/

Blogs

• Walter's Matte World
  

• http://www.jockelsplace.de/

Hello Blender World

So.. As per few suggestions on Blender Knowledge Base Facebook, I am creating this blog.

Finally!!!

Just a screenshot from one of my earlier experiments of duplicated mesh data and how it  interacts with the modifier stack.

- Satish 'iluvblender' Goda

P.S.
Although, I do have a website where I have a section on Blender (But its not a blog and users cannot interact with it.)