{"id":502,"date":"2013-07-13T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2013-07-13T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T12:03:55","slug":"playing-with-cinema-4d-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Cinema 4D: Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was commenting in a previous post, I enjoy playing with the parameters in C4D to get a nice realistic and soft illumination.
\nToday I wanted to get a nice text that felt warm. This is the result:<\/p>\n

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There are lots of subtle changes made to get a nice final image, you can see step by step the process in the full post.<\/p>\n

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Some comments:<\/p>\n

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  1. I started with an extruded text. It is very importad to add a bevel on the border, otherwise you will miss lots of specular hotspots and the borders wont look realistic.
    \nThen I put a rectangular area light where most of the light came from, it is very close to the object.<\/li>\n
  2. Added global illumination to get rid of the dark areas (and because I love GI).<\/li>\n
  3. I wanted to remove the “plastic looking” on the material so I added a Subsurface scattering on the luminance, but it burned the image.<\/li>\n
  4. Reduced the SSS a little bit. The SSS is very subtle (maybe in the dark edges) but the look and feel is better.<\/li>\n
  5. Tryed adding AO but the results are horrible, so I removed instanly (I didnt want to play with it).<\/li>\n
  6. I like the natural illumination so I turned the light orange and changed the sky to blue to give that sunset look.<\/li>\n
  7. Made the floor glossy, so you can see the reflection a little bit, it gives some volume.<\/li>\n
  8. Applyed a fracture and a random effector rotating every letter a little bit in the Y axis, this makes the front side of the text less flat.<\/li>\n
  9. Added some contrast in Photoshop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want the C4D project file you can download it from here<\/a>, feel free to use it however you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As I was commenting in a previous post, I enjoy playing with the parameters in C4D to get a nice realistic and soft illumination. Today I wanted to get a nice text that felt warm. This is the result: There are lots of subtle changes made to get a nice final image, you can see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamats.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}