Blender: Intro to Lighting

by Jonathan Williamson

In this blender video we will cover the basics of lighting within Blender.

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92 Responses to “Blender: Intro to Lighting”
  1. anu
    Posts: 2

    Hi,

    I am finding it difficult to place the lighting and camera in their proper position. It will be really helpful if you can let me know from where should i do it???

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     Jun 5, 2012 at 6:18 am
    • bironelstudios
      Posts: 3

      Hi lots of times these tutorial forget some of the basic stuff thinking its intuitive because they know it. You have to select objects for the contextual menus to show up. So much is hidden in blender until you select it then menus become specific to what you have selected

      I am using a Mac with Snow Leopard OS and Blender 2.6X
      I will submit some jpegs detailing this.

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       Jan 24, 2013 at 3:58 pm
  2. dangerf2
    Posts: 1

    hello,
    where can i find tutorials to make cars?

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     Jul 24, 2012 at 4:06 am
  3. herman
    Posts: 1

    Hi Jonathan,

    I hope you can help me.
    I’m making a kind of documentarys based on historical photographs and for the editing I use “Vegas pro 9″ (maybe I will upgrade to “pro 11″). Think about buildings, streets with people, factorys, historical happenings.

    In Vegas I’m using the 3D technic (masks, layers, etc) but the images remain flat. Now i like tu put more “dimension” into some photographs and i saw some nice examples, made in Blender. So I thought Blender is my program to do it.

    I saw some tutorials (like this 7 above) but it is difficult to find the method how to put dimension into existing photogaphy. I think I understand the basical method of projecting the photo, making dimensions with meshes in a kind of layer, using the virtual Blender camera, etc.
    I saw an tutorial explaining how to do with photography but some parts I can’t understand.
    Here you can see:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=d9x_1iIAB8Q&NR=1

    I think it’s not too bad but probably my basis knowledge is still to low.

    I’m 57 years old and not a wizzkid in this kind of programms. Your tutorials were very clear, in general I can understand them well, also your clear English.

    Blender is not easy and the most tutorials have other intentions what to learn but my goal at the moment is only to use it for this historical photographs.

    Maybe you know one or some tutorials which can help me out.

    Kind regards, Herman

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     Aug 24, 2012 at 7:03 am
  4. MidiMe
    Posts: 1

    Hi Jonathon

    Just spent the last week working through your Intro to Blender tutorials and have to say credit where credit’s due! Absolutely brilliant mate! This program is the tool of choice for an MSc I’ll be starting next year and although I’m proficient with Photoshop, couldn’t grasp the basics of Blender until I saw your tutorials. You’ve somehow managed to extract all the basic tools and functions for anyone to get going in a very short time. My only question is about Rendering the animation. Did a very basic 60 second clip moving and rotating the cube and selected AVI Codec as the output. Scene played fluently in VLC Player but total length was only 2 secs. Any ideas why as I can’t work this one out for myself? Thanks so much…

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     Sep 10, 2012 at 9:06 am
    • Alex Telford
      Posts: 454

      Hi MidiMe
      Did you render out 60 frames instead of 60 seconds? 60 frames at 30 frames per second = 2 seconds.
      -Alex

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       Sep 25, 2012 at 3:04 pm
  5. Eward B
    Posts: 1

    hi! I was wounding; if I can take 3D images from free cad 0.12 and and paste them into blender and can I annimate that as well ;because there both programmed in the python langueges?

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     Sep 23, 2012 at 12:31 am
    • Alex Telford
      Posts: 454

      Hi, I have not used that software but look for an option to export as an obj and then you can import that into blender
      -Alex

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      55.1
       Sep 25, 2012 at 3:05 pm
  6. Konrad
    Posts: 1

    Hey um for some reason when i adjust the lamp,it doesnt chage the light.help please!

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     Oct 14, 2012 at 8:10 am
    • Alex Telford
      Posts: 454

      Hi Konrad, sometimes falloff can have a big effect on lights. try narrowing down your problem. Put the value of the light at 100, then at 0. if nothing changes the light is not effecting your scene. If it does, then you may just need to use bigger values.
      -Alex

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      56.1
       Oct 14, 2012 at 2:42 pm
    • Arlett
      Posts: 1

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       Dec 5, 2012 at 11:57 am
  7. Ford
    Posts: 1

    Hi, I am new to Blender. How on earth do you return to 3D view from Rendered Image view at 0:39 to 0:40?

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     Dec 12, 2012 at 2:07 am
  8. John
    Posts: 1

    My num pad isn’t working when i hit 0, 7 or 5 nothing happens how do i fix this?

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     Dec 18, 2012 at 3:31 pm
  9. Paul
    Posts: 1

    hey I could not find render

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     Dec 21, 2012 at 4:41 pm
  10. bironelstudios
    Posts: 3

    it would be helpful if commenters could leave jpeg screen shots of the issues they are bumping into to show the problems in addition to jotting them down.

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     Jan 24, 2013 at 4:03 pm
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