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Originally Posted by ChrisH
Lord, it's been over twenty years since I weighed in on an argument about lighting, and then we were using heavy "luminaires" not this virtual stuff. Digital pictures back then were more like line drawings.
I really don't care what renderer you use or how you get your lighting effects. The only real questions are 1) do you know what effect you want, and why? 2) are you getting the effect that you want? 3) if not, do you know what to do about it?
How about this Final Exam? You walk into the room, a big black box theatre and are handed a scene number (at random) from the play you were supposed to read in advance. Your equipment is one elipsoidal spotlight, one wrench for mounting same, a box of gels and gobos, a 20 foot ladder, and a lighting tech in the booth because you can't be two places at once. Your classmates will be the actors, position them as you wish. Light that scene! you have 20 minutes .... be ready to defend your answer.
If you can pass that, you may understand enough about lighting to weigh in on the argument about what rendering technique to use. How you do it is not nearly as important as what is achieved in the end result.
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hahahahaha oh my god
you win the prize for unique word dropping
and ms paint is amazing
and some of you are putting words into my mouth
they taste yucky
and Peace @ Matt Hallock
For all artists everywhere the place to improve your skills now are now Modeling, Animation, and Texturing (but that one is iffY).
I think the nice renderers are neat and certainly nice to look at..
I guess I just don't want people to make it the centerpiece of all of their work... because most of us can see right through it. I could take the jankiest model ever and make it look awesome with a nice renderer.
I've spent a lot of time playing with GI and it's fun. I just want people to learn how to fly the falcon before using the light speed button.
