Pokémon Challenge 2022 – Celebi – WIP

[Vue Thao]

Lol @wendy10698 I’m assuming you had its strength on 1.00. Seventy is too much for the outside scene. No wonder the scene is too bright.

I like the new scene though. 

[spikeyxxx]

I found the Contact Shadows box

Contact Shadows are to ‘repair’ light leaking like here:

Alternatively, in this particular example, you could give the wall some thickness:

The weird thing, is that you didn’t have any shadow at all in the beginning…there was shadow on Celebi, but not on the ground…

[Adrian Bellworthy]

You can also try a different shadow mode in the material properties.

Also do you have Ambient Occlusion turned on in the render properties?

[Wendy Robinson]

lol. NOPE. 😅It was 70. 🤦🏼‍♀️But that’s cuz of a video I saw talking about adjusting exposure to make realistic lighting.🤷🏼‍♀️ Again. I have NO idea what I’m doing and lighting has never been one of strong suits.

[Wendy Robinson]

@spikeyxxx That was issue I was having with the leg! Lack of shadow. Yes, I didn’t have any shadows at the beginning so I had no idea where I was suppose to get them from. That’s why I jumped to baking them in I guess? 🤔🤦🏼‍♀️

@adrian2301 No…I didn’t have Ambient Occlusion on….😅I don’t know what that is…It’s on now though.👍🏼

[Wendy Robinson]

Playing with lights. (Hope ya’ll aren’t sick of the different light setups yet.😅) Now I that I’m changing them up I can’t seem to stop. 😂 Only problem is, I don’t know which one to turn in when the time comes…

(Original Lighting)

Golden Hour

Blue Hour

Night time

Neon Lights

[Sébastien Lenaerts]

it’s really building up to something very beautiful.I’d love to chill with this little Pokémon, great work and good luck with the last tweaks!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

There all good, 

I think my favourite is the blue hour.

[Ben Reichel]

Try adding the Neon Lights to the Blue Hour scene.  The rim lighting from the Neon lights may make the character and the rock edges pop.  Keep it up, this is looking great!

[Wendy Robinson]

@notcostanza Here it is. What do you think? Lighting isn’t my strong suit. Is there to much going on with the lighting? Is it distracting? (If you have a moment, could I get your opinion on the lighting for my scene, @theluthier, please? )

[Ben Reichel]

The blue is a little too different from the rest of the scene.  Maybe set the color of it to one of the sky colors behind the character.  It is always trial and error for me.  Hopefully Kent will drop some lighting knowledge.

[Wendy Robinson]

@notcostanza

[Wendy Robinson]

Just posting this one cuz I thought the lighting looked cool.

[Wendy Robinson]

@notcastanza 

I just realized that @theluthier is one of the judges. He may not be able to help me with the lighting until the challenge is over.

[Wendy Robinson]

And…..again….

Sorry to beat a dead horse but…..what do you think of the new model? Feedback would be GREATLY appreciated. CAN you actually tell a difference? Does it look better or worse. What can I do to make it better? (Thanks for taking the time to read this. )

New Version (WIP)

Old Version

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