Lighting for a candle

Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

Watch

# 1 04-01-2009 , 09:02 PM

Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007

Posts: 84

Hey guys

Doing a very short video clip where i have a candle and a fluid effects flame with a scroll in the background. My objective is to cast with the flame some light against the scroll. Any ideas as to the type of lighting I should be looking at using ??

Thanks for all your help.

Quote

# 2 05-01-2009 , 12:05 AM

Senior Software Developer
Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: Livingston, Scotland

Posts: 1,701

For a single candle.. try ambient

Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
Twitter
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will truely know peace - Jimmy Hendrix

Winner SM VFX Challenge 1

3rd Place SM SteamPunk Challenge (May 2007)

Quote

# 3 05-01-2009 , 04:50 PM

Subscriber
Join Date: Dec 2007

Location: NZ

Posts: 3,125

ambient? i didn't think a candle could light everything evenly

point light is better i would have thought

that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"

Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

Quote

Reply to this thread