Spooky Scene Workflows - Lighting, Rendering, and Atmosphere - Week 4

Overview

Dive into the final week of a four-part webinar series focused on creating a spooky Halloween-inspired scene. Learn advanced techniques for lighting, rendering, and atmosphere development using Cinema 4D and Redshift. Explore creative lighting methods to enhance the composition and highlight key elements of the environment. Discover how to use Redshift to amplify the atmospheric effects and build base materials that support the scene's narrative. Follow along as instructors demonstrate post-production workflows in Photoshop, including camera raw adjustments, masking, color setup, and adding effects like fire, smoke, and bloom. Gain insights into depth of field techniques, fog layer creation, and relighting using normal maps. Perfect for digital artists looking to elevate their environment design and post-processing skills for creating eerie, captivating scenes.

Syllabus

Waiting Loops
Haunting in Candyland
Welcome
Today's Topic
Housekeeping
ZBrush, Rendering
__ Materials
__ Lights, Light Passes
__ BPR Filter, Effects
__ Export Renders, Images
__ Reflection Pass, Rim Pass
Scene Image Processing, Skull
__ Ps Camera Raw adjustments
__ Masking
__ Main Color setup
__ Optics, Vignette
__ Sharpening
__ Smart Filter
__ Object Selection, Comp Prep.
__ Adding Fire, matching
__ Adding Amber
__ Smoke Overlay, Gradient Map
__ Smoke, Ps Camera Raw
__ Matching Color, Gradient maps
__ Smoke, detail via blur
__ Candle flame
__ Shape, position, flame
__ Candle Crown Rim Light, prep
__ Curve Short Cuts RGB
__ Ps Blending Options
__ Candle Crown Rim Light, paint
__ Add Bloom, using channel info
__ Oniric Plugin, Glow
__ Camera Raw, Preset, Adjustments
__ Final
ZBrush Scene, Pumkin, Tomb
__ Passes
__ 16bit/c, but Smart Object WFL
__ Depth of Field, Source, Depth
__ Ps Depth Blur AI Beta
__ Depth map as Fog layer, Athmo
__ Smoke layer, match light direction
__ Relight via Normals, Hue, Sat, Curve
__ Level adjust, Layer mask
Q How to rewatch this
__ Multi-Pass tip
Wrapping up
Thank you and bye