3D Fluff Volume 2 - Radiosity Interiors Review by Mark Gmehling aka Macling 3D FLUFF TRAINING FOR CINEMA 4D - VOLUME 2 RADIOSITY INTERIORS In volume two Janine Pauke is focusing on one of the most difficult to handle topics in any 3d application: achieving realistic lighting using radiosity.
DVD Review
The Dvd comes along with about 160 minutes of video tutorials, the required codecs for mac and pc, all project files that are explained during the video tutorials and a goodies folder that contains seven high-res HDRI Images and some other interior scenes you can play with after you gained your radiosity experiences during the video tutorials. The video tutorials are divided into eleven parts that guide through the whole process of material tweaking, lighting and rendering in order to achieve acceptable render times while using the advanced renderer modules radiosity settings: 1. The main radiosity setup 2. Basic theory of radiosity and global illumination 3. Setting up and adjusting direct lighting 4. Setting up materials and adjusting their illumination settings 5. Adjusting shadows 6. Setting up and adjusting indirect diffuse lighting 7. Scene setup 8. Render setup 9. Adjusting antialiasing settings 10. Final photoshop improvements of the multipass rendered layers 11. Final photoshop improvements of the flattened image All explanations in the video tutorials are understandable for the intermediate 3D Artists and also bear lots of
interesting informations for the advanced CINEMA user. (By the way: the not native english speaker will have no problem following Janine’s english explanations.) But the most important point is: Janine’s explanations teach a global technical understanding of the radiosity settings and their relations to the main scene setup which makes you able to improve the radiosity rendertimes of your own scenes enormously. We all know the joke: "How many 3d artists are needed to render a great radiosity image?" (Ten.- one who sets up the render and nine who kill the artifacts in pho-
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toshop.) The funny answer contains some truth as we all know, because in production we all have to deal with deadlines and a straight workflow is the most important thing. 3d Fluff Dvd Volume 2 concentrates on teaching a straight workflow: Keeping the rendertimes low at the beginning and only increasing special settings when its needed during process. This means, not only the radiosity menu. The detailed setup of a whole scene and the materials to fasten the rendering is explained too. One of the chapters teaches and technically explains the different