How to create cinematic lighting using textures

Achieving believable cinematic lighting can be challenging!

Especially, when it involves tons of light sources your render time goes up and it becomes very difficult to make any big changes and experiment with your lighting.

Having the same frustration in past, I developed this technique that allows you to be less technical with your lighting and as a result, be more creative.

Octane renderer is used for these examples, but this technique can be applied in any other 3D packages.

Includes:

2 hours of video tutorials

Octane set-up scenes

JPG files

Topics covered:

Introduction

What makes lighting cinematic?

Setting up cinematic light in Octane Standalone

Realistic lighting vs creative lighting with textures

How far do you need to push your renders

Paintover demo (time-lapsed)