The Shading Course
Welcome
Module 1 - How to Separate Light & Shadow
Module 2 - How to See Light Effects
Module 3 - How to Control Values
Module 4 - How to Organize Values
Module 5 - How to Create Realistic Shading
Module 6 - How to Use Light Probes
Module 7 - How to Show Form
Module 8 - How to Invent Shading
Module 9 - How to Use Maquettes
Module 10 - Bringing it all Together
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Samuel Sanjaya
3mo
I did a bunch of these, It was a very interesting assignment, I also apply this on my personal stuff, and it helped a lot with the shadings ! Any feedbacks/critiques will be greatly appreciated
3mo
Good studies! I like how you did it in both digital and traditional, though I would encourage you to continue pushing the value range in the traditional studies. In the image with the blue background, you could even strengthen the core shadow as it goes downwards, and the first image (with the explosion) could have more transitional half-tones from shadow to light.
They overall have the proper direction for shadow, but you may want to check upon the red and black sections of Deadpool and the yellow dress. Especially when it's something with a more even lighting situation like the girl in yellow, the light probes would have about the same direction (from one end of the terminator to the other), even if the curvature/amount of lighting present varies.
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@selenitis
6mo
@cindygs
8mo
Romain Decotte
8mo
Hello,
Here’s my light probes assignment. Pics 1 and 3 done on Procreate and 2 on Photoshop. @Dorian Iten, it was lots of fun and a nice opportunity to try out digitally on both - thanks.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Romain
8mo
Nice! 👏
Really good colors, values, and terminator ellipses on all of these!
A few notes:
In image 1, on the head, the specular reflection is a bit too bright.
In image 2, the light comes a bit more from the top. See the cast shadow of the nose on the cheek.
In image 3, on the jacket, the form light value is a bit too bright.
These are nitpicky notes. ;) Great work overall!
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Karlo H.
1yr
@ivat
1yr
@flugmodus1
2yr
Sometimes the lightsource was easy to see ... other times it was just plain guessing. Cool exercise though. Would love to hear feedback from you guys :-)
Brayden Copley
2yr
The only one that I'm really not happy with is the shiny one from the ring location. I found it difficult to get the highlight to have enough contrast with the center light without ending up with dirty lights.
Félicia Gagnon
2yr
Ouf! That was a hard one. Even with tips on how to find the placement and direction of light sources, I had a lot of trouble visualizing them and figuring out how they would interact with surfaces. While searching for images, a lot of movie scenes turned out to have several different light sources, which was confusing and made me change my choices a few times. I think I ended up picking an image with very simple lighting, which helped, but even then, I'm not so sure about my answers.
Yvann Innocent
2yr
I chose one of my favorite movies for this assignment
@gasyadocro
2yr
I put spoiler alert of “Coraline” just in case.
@gasyadocro
2yr
I chose coralline for reference. and additionally chose Anthem. I feel interesting about the evil part of coralline uses relatively more light sources. Anyway I submit as I committed.
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Tony Vu
2yr
2yr
Nice!
Here is a suggestion for the face (and jacket)
See feedback recording for Module 5.
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Jean-François (Jeff) Durix
2yr
Module 5 so let’s go for the fifth element light probes
2yr
Well done!
Watch out for "ice caps" as well :) Here you can also soften the terminator more to show the soft quality of the light in the scene. I adjusted the light direction slightly, based on the specular reflection in the eyes and nose.
(See feedback recording for Module 5.)
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