What’s the best CG course for studio lighting?

[Sid Edwards]

I’d like to emulate soft immersive studio lighting. But, when I tried searching for that, I didn’t find those results. What’s the best CG course that will go over this? 

[Omar Domenech]

An HDRI with soft light studio set up should get the job done, for product showcasing. Lighting is a whole art in itself, so there’s both lighting Fundamentals to watch:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/core-fundamentals-of-lighting-in-blender

https://cgcookie.com/courses/fundamentals-of-digital-lighting-in-blender

And the Sessions tutorials make good use of lighting:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/sessions-minimalism

https://cgcookie.com/courses/sessions-macro

[coyo]

I’ve been working my way through the CORE Lighting course and Kaizen covers a lot of good theory and setups in that. Also, like Omar mentioned, an HDRI can get you pretty far. Polyhaven has quite a few studio HDRIs ranging from warm to cool tones. I use Studio Small 03 quite a lot myself since it’s fairly neutral. Mix that up with Kaizen’s advice on adding some area lights for fills and rim as needed if you want to make things pop a little more!

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