Lighting Viewport 2.0

The workflow’s straight forward but there’s loads of little tricks and techniques we can use to get the most out of our viewport.

We cover a great easy three-point lighting setup that looks good from any angle with a transparent floor shadow. We’ll look at shadows and all the tech and explain how realtime shadows are different from the raytacing in our render view. We’ll see how to achieve crisp antialiased shadows in realtime.

We’ll explore all maya light types and see how true realistic lighting falloffs are now possible in 2016 with linear lighting setup by out of the box. But the settings aren’t obvious.

See how rim lights work and their downsides in the viewport, the work arounds to get our models looking great.

This is the first class of the viewport series. Start here with lighting in grey before moving onto texturing and shaders. Many students make the mistake of diving into textures first without understanding that lighting is the real key to great appealing renders. So the viewport presentation series starts here.

Running Time: 49 mins
Software: Maya 2016
Instructor: Andrew Silke