'It's not just faster and easier, HDR Light Studio brings a degree of control, freedom and pure interactivity to lighting that is just unparalleled. Indispensable.’’īruce Bigelow, Founding Partner, Creative Director and Head of 3D at Cream Electric Art HDR Light Studio is the only product that allows you versatility, speed and the ability to customise absolutely everything about a CGI lighting setup. “When you’re creating high-end CGI images, whether for animation or hi-res print, it's really important to be able experiment spontaneously with various lighting rigs.

HDR Light Studio saves time during the lighting process and provides total control over the lighting design. HDR Light Studio teaches you to light properly - creating the high quality custom lighting your 3D work deserves. Your only control with a stock HDRI map is to rotate it and change the brightness of the whole setup. It’s these adjustments that make the difference between a good and amazing image. You can’t change the size, color or location of a single light. You may quite like the lighting effect from your chosen studio HDRI map, but if you want to tweak it – you can’t. Soon this supposedly fast lighting process is actually taking a long time, and you still can’t get the exact look you want. You've taken so much care with the modelling and materials - why shortcut the lighting? Plus the more HDRI maps you collect – the longer it takes to choose and test them out. Testing out one HDRI map at a time and rotating the environment to try and stumble on a good result is not an efficient or smart approach to lighting. But they give your final image that standard studio lighting look. The most useful stock studio HDRI maps are often the most generic and bland, allowing them to light a wide range of scenes. Your image won’t stand out from the crowd. Using stock HDRI maps does not teach you to light properly because you simply use a pre-made lighting setup. Learning to light properly one light at a time, whatever method used, is an essential skill for a 3D artist that will be used on every future project.

More importantly a badly placed reflection can ruin your image too. Carefully positioned lights and reflections will bring the form and materials of your scene to life. Lighting can make or break the quality of your final image. Lighting is one of the most exciting stages in creating a 3D image. What's wrong with using stock Studio HDRI maps?

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