Watch this video course and start creating juicy lighting in the least painful way
Realistic Lighting in Blender
Instant Download Give me my copy Video Info: 2 hours, 1920 x 1080(download), MP4 format 15 Tutorials Lots of Cheating Software Used: Blender 2.77, Cycles, Krita 2.9 Skill Level: Intermediate •
Instructor: Gleb Alexandrov, Artist & Founder of the Creative Shrimp blog
• • • • "A carefully constructed creative course! Gleb has a really fun and fantastic approach to creating fun and fantastic (and sometimes crazy) art!" Aidy Burrows - Artist and Tutorial Creator at CG Masters "Gleb is a Wizard!" Colin Levy - Camera & Staging Artist, Director of Sintel cgmasters.net colinlevy.com
Realistic Lighting Can Be A Pain in the Butt
If you’ve ever tried to create a thick cloudy fog with the light shining through it, you know how tantalizing it is.
Waiting 53 hours watching render buckets crawl across the screen... it sucks. Even the nerdiest of nerds wouldn't enjoy it.
And now imagine this.
You can take a shortcut (or rather a smartcut) and render it in 2 minutes. You just need to know how to HACK the realistic lighting in Blender. “I can’t think of many better ways to master both realistic and stylistic lighting than with this useful and enjoyable video series" Stephen Holmes - Editor at 3D Artist 3dartistonline.com
00. Introduction
In the introduction video I'll walk you through the video course chapters and other important stuff. Like "why coffee?" etc.
01. Sample the Reflection from a Different Scene
In the lighting hack #1 we'll be adding a virtual reflection on top of our original one.
02.1. Fake Caustics
Physically-based caustics can be a pain in the butt. Let's simulate the same effect (but faster!) using the light texture.
TUTORIALS
02.2. Light Texture
How to use a projection technique to add an eye-catching throw pattern to a light source?
03.1. Wet Ground
How to make a surface look wet and glossy? Watch this chapter (oh, the effect is 90% made of variable roughness).
03.2. Super Glossy
...And in this chapter we'll take a look at the super glossy surfaces.
04. Normal-based Lighting
You can add an extra oomph to your lighting by playing with the normal-based effects in the material. 7m35s 5m8s 5m51s 6m27s 5m29s 7m10s 6m07s
05. Breaking the Energy Conservation Law
How to use the Add shader to break the energy conservation law and create... the luminiscent mushrooms effect?
06. Paint the Lightmap
Learn how to beautify the lighting by painting a lightmap. Like we live in a Quake era.
07. Traffic Trails
Discover how to simulate a traffic trails effect in Blender.
08. Physically Incorrect
is Fun
Recap some hacks from the previous chapters and combine them to create a hyperrealistic render.
09. Separate Lighting and Camera View
The Light Path node works wonders, if you need to saparate the actual light emitted by objects VS what camera sees. Why bother? For example, tweak the reflections ONLY.
10. Particles Using
Transparent Planes
Simulate particles floating in the air, using this incredibly simple technique (hint: alpha-mapped planes).
11. Volume Light Hack
A physically correct volume scattering effect can be insanely hard to set up and tweak. Let's use the alpha-mapped planes instead. 5m36s 13m31s 6m59s 8m09s 4m37s 7m43s 5m38s Parts: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 "A large part of visual effects and achieving reality in a computer is knowing how to cheat to get the look you want.
With these 11 hacks, you're going to learn some of the best tricks Gleb knows Sean Kennedy, Visual Effects Artist OpenVisualFX.com "Gleb is one of the few artists that goes against the standard conventions in CG to create truly mesmerizing renders.
Any tutorials that reveal his workflows are definitely worth watching!" and they are great!" Andrew Price, Creator of BlenderGuru.com
BONUSES
Asset Library
Watching tutorials is cool, but wouldn't it be more effective if you also could learn by example? With 15 .blend files included, you can open each scene and see how it works. Post-processing is kind of an ultimate lighting hack. The dirtiest of the hacks. So I thought: "I have to squeeze the post-processing tutorial into the course".
Post-processing Tips
Introduction to Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is a cutting edge technology in a graphics industry. Watch this tutorial to learn the basics of creating the photo-scanned 3D assets. I Want It Now! $1.99 So I'll click here to purchase the course for $1.99 and start crushing the realistic lighting
This is awesome, and a nice touch that you’ve included the blend files! I wonder what sort of license you’ve released them under, i.e. if we use parts of them for other work can we publish it?
Moby, feel free to use them however you like: in your project (personal and commercial), without any restrictions. It’s like CC BY. I mentioned it in the documentation pdf 🙂 Cheers!
Hey Gleb, huge fan, Blender is not my main DCC but your videos are crazy cool and I wanna support kickass CG maniacs like you. please do me a solid and provide ‘download as zip’ option under the “download all” toggle. Working around dropbox is a pain in the culo. Love creativeshrimp.com
Thanks man. For some reason, I couldn’t get this .zip button to appear 🙁 Maybe it’s because there are files larger than 1GB? The Gumroad help page says: “…if the total file size is greater than one GB, this feature will not be available”
I was on the fence for several days, worried that with no GPU to speak of this might not be for me, but then saw the discount and bought. Hope this works for older machines with CPU.
I would still recommend to get a decent GPU eventually. So much faster than even the top CPU. That said, if it won’t work for you for some reason, feel free to contact me anytime, and I’ll be happy to refund 🙂 Thanks!
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3dnv
G man I just seen what I did, dude I am such an idiot, please edit to fix! I was too excited and didn’t read
I downloaded these and watched them last night. Absolutely worth the money and more. Thanks for all your hard work on this Gleb. Much appreciated. I really like your artistic approach to CGI, it’s really refreshng.
Danny, I’m so happy you wrote a quick review. It is so encouraging for me that you find the course to be helpful!
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Mrityunjay
hello sir i am absolutely amazed by listening that its only $35!!!!! (i thought it would be around $100+ ) but i m 16 and earn $0 right now but yeah honestly i Will buy this amazing course from my first income! (and its gonna be pritty soon!!) 😀
Erwin, that’s the coolest thing you can do – try to incorporate it into your own work. Way to go!
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Yanbo Zhang
Hi, Gleb, I have a paypal account. But the link you gave require a credit card, which is not available for some students. So can you provide other way to pay for this tutorial? Thanks.
Just to make sure, when you click on PayPal button it still requires a credit card?
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Yanbo Zhang
No. But it says that they cannot verify my card information. My card was handled in China, maybe Gumroad don’t have my information. Can I just pay through Paypal directly to your account, and then you give me a download link or an “offer code”?
It seems to me that people had a similar problem with Gumroad and Paypal. That’s how it was solved: “This is strange, when I used my phone it worked. It asked for different information (didn’t ask for name on card, but asked for address). Hope that helps if anyone else has the problem.” If that doesn’t work, email me at contact@creativeshrimp.com and we’ll arrange something. Thanks.
Gleb, I just want to say thanks! picked this up the second I got the notification email when I was eating lunch at work!! Fantastic ideas, and I can’t wait to put them into my workflow. Got the early bird discount. Absolute steal at the regular price, but couldn’t resist saving $5 more 🙂
I’m back on your site to re-watch your camera rig tutorial for a job I’m on. Ran into the f-curves noise influence problem when adding some shake for a product shot and remember you had a work around.
Edward, I usually can’t resist the $5 temptation too, haha 🙂 Especially when buying clothes and swag. No point in resisting! I’m glad to know that the camera rig tutorial is helpful to you. Probably I’ll make a sequel to it, with the real camera shake tracking.
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CrazyEngine
Damn, I’ll have to wait ’til next month. But I’m glad it’s so cheap. o.o Thanks for that! <3
kupił bym za tyle jak by to było po POLSKU! a jest po ENG to moge dać 35 PLN!
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Miszla
Nie narzekaj. Angielski jest potrzebny do podstawowej komunikacji w internecie i po prostu trzeba się go nauczyć. Nie potrafię się nim płynnie posługiwać, ale takie poradniki mają to do siebie, że używa się głównie, że tak go nazwę, blenderowego języka. Kiedy ktoś mówi “connect image node to the viewer” rozumiemy to, ponieważ występuję te nazwy “image, node oraz viewer”, które są napisane i których normalnie się używa podczas tłumazcenia czegoś po polsku. A cena jest bardzo dobra: Andrew Price za 30 dolarów sprzedaje tylko zestaw teł, jakieś lepsze produkty kosztują minimum 150 dolców, jeden nawet 600. Dlatego jestem bardzo Glebowi wdzięczna za to, co zrobił.
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Sandra D
by intermediate, what skills should someone have already before starting?
Sandra, thanks for the question 🙂 What you need before starting is to know the basics: how to open the node editor, navigate in the viewport, throw in some lights. Essentially what I’ll be showing in the tutorials, is how to take the scene with the basic light setup and take it to the next level. While the course is labeled as intermediate, I tried hard to make it accessible for beginners. I’m sure you will be able to follow through! 🙂
Bought it yesterday. From what I can tell so far, great work Gleb! It was totally worth it! 🙂 I actually never heard of Autodesk Memento before. it seems like a great free alternative to Photoscan. I was really thinking about buying Photoscan, though. So my question for you is, would you recommend me to buy Photoscan, now that I could use Memento as well?
Amazing! =) Kai, Memento may become a commercial product in late May, based on what Autodesk announced. So I’m not sure whether it will have a free/offline version. Anyways, Photoscan is probably the best choice. Personally I would recommend Photoscan.
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Ayesha Noor
Damm, I dont have credit card nor paypal, what are alternate methods to pay.
Ayesha, I’m afraid that credit card or paypal are the only methods that Gumroad accepts.
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Ayesha Noor
Ha, I am from Pakistan. And please study about pakistan. Here in pakistan its difficult to buy online stuff or shopping; Tax, custom etc problems. Can you accept Western Union.
Hi Ayesha , email me at Saadaziz318@gmail.com i am from Pakistan need to urgently talk to you . Or you can DM me at insta @saadsdesign
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Miszla
The price is awesome! I’m from east too and I was always upset when I saw Andrew Price’s prices. I understood: he made a lot of good work, but when I counted this dolars to my currency… agh. The basic version of Architecture Academy costs half of avarage-good salary. (958zł, when salary is usually around 2000zł). And platinum version? 2699zł – more than good salary (2500zł) I’m really gratefull to you for this available to me price.
Hi Gleb. I bought this right away when I saw it because I knew it would be fantastic. You never disappoint! I’m playing around with faking volumetric swirling mist using Dynamic Paint after watching the “Volume Light Hack” video. Super fun stuff. Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh, that’s intriguing. Carolyn, please feel free to share any kind of images with your experiments. And thanks so much for your support!
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Carolyn Roberts
Here is my first attempt. Clearly it needs a lot of work and I will create multiple layers once I get it looking right on the first one. https://youtu.be/UzKV0oaFXS4
Cool & ghostly, I love it! Did you use the flat planes with emissive shaders or the volume scatter? As an alternative (that takes a longer time to render), you can try using the procedural noise plugged in the density input of the volume scatter shader. For example, the musgrave noise + mapping node with animated X location.
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Carolyn Roberts
I baked the animated texture out of dynamic paint and mapped it onto a plane with an emissive shader. My goal is to create an animated effect that renders much faster than using actual volumetrics. I’m thinking of making a simple sci-fi environment with a cartoony alien walking through the mist.
Looks pretty realistic to me. Good cheat 🙂 Also you can use the Distance to camera to fade the plane gradually, when we move closer to it (in other words, mix it with the transparent shader). Just my 2 cents. I think you already know that stuff 🙂
Hello, Gleb! Congrats for the course. Man, probably u had respond to this question several time. Sorry by the way. Which machine are u using in this course, cause your renders preview are so fast!!!(?).
Thanks in advance.
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Adrian Andersen
I love you so much for pricing this as it is, most blender users won’t be able to afford hundred-dollar-products, but this was a no-brainer, bught, and downloading. Thank you!
Nathaniel, I feel empowered, thanks a ton! Give it a try.
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Kyle Vuorinen
I’m currently listening to you talk about this product on the podcast with Andrew from back in December. I am so excited to learn from these! Thank you Gleb!
Kyle, would you mind sharing your thoughts about this series after you watch it? I’m really interested in hearing from you, what you liked/disliked about it, what you found interesting/boring and so on. If you have a few minutes to spare, of course 🙂 Have fun and thanks! p.s. On the podcast we talked more about the Lighting Project – the book about lighting. http://www.creativeshrimp.com/lighting-tutorials-my-way-to-write-a-book.html On the other hand, this lighting course was recorded a bit later 🙂 http://www.creativeshrimp.com/realistic-lighting-in-blender.html
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saad aziz
Hi Glen thanks for these amazing tutorials at very affordable price for students too. Waiting for your next tutorials to learn something new . Enjoy your cup of coffee 😉
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SpeedyKabal
How About give it to me for Free (y) 🙂 :p
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KHAIRIL ANUAR BIN MUHAMAD
Im new to BLender…do u have any starter pack? Or is it ok if i buy this one as my starter pack tutorial?
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MattTheWaffleCat
lol, i was a little skeptical at first but if andrew price says it’s good then i might consider it
Bonnie, aaaaa you’re too kind. needless to say, you really made my day! Btw, are there things that you disliked about this series (or want to see improved)?
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Bonnie
Thank you for your response! 🙂 I’m really trying but I can’t think of ANYTHING!! You explain everything very well, the length of the vids is great, it’s really diverse and I’m learning SO much new stuff! Also, I like Gumroad because all of the vids stay organized and I can watch them online. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Just keep doing the awesome things you do! (Oh and please keep the jokes and the cat! ^_^ )
WHAT!!! I can’t believe I never seen this course of yours before! Ordering it RIGHT AWAY! I WANT IT NOW!!! Also will definitely get the Space VFX One as well. A big thank you for being who you are Gleb.
Hello gleb, I bought your this great tutorial two day ago, I watched and I followed you, it’s awesomely experience. But I was faced with a curious problem, how can I get the great caustics? In your tutorial, you just only teach the way to use. If I make architecture scene using caustics, like as the house with big pool or huge lounge with big window which is made of curtain wall, how can I get their scenes caustics?
Moby Motion
This is awesome, and a nice touch that you’ve included the blend files! I wonder what sort of license you’ve released them under, i.e. if we use parts of them for other work can we publish it?
Gleb Alexandrov
Moby, feel free to use them however you like: in your project (personal and commercial), without any restrictions. It’s like CC BY. I mentioned it in the documentation pdf 🙂 Cheers!
Moby Motion
Awesome, keep up the good work.
Gleb Alexandrov
Thank you!
Martin W.
interesting interesting…
Maybe the first course I’ll buy 😉
Gleb Alexandrov
Awesome! Tell me later what you think about it, if you get it.
Joe Davis
This is great, so much cheaper than I was expecting!
Gleb Alexandrov
Joe, I’m glad to be the endorphine booster for you!
Vlad
Hey Gleb, I have just one question about that. If we are unhappy about that product we can get back money?
Gleb Alexandrov
Hi Vlad, yea if you’re unhappy about it, I’ll refund. No questions asked and no hard feelings 🙂
It’s like 30-days money back guarantee.
Vlad
Thx man :D, and in any case.. GREAT WORK 😀
Gleb Alexandrov
You are welcome. High fives!
3dnv
Hey Gleb, huge fan, Blender is not my main DCC but your videos are crazy cool and I wanna support kickass CG maniacs like you.
please do me a solid and provide ‘download as zip’ option under the “download all” toggle. Working around dropbox is a pain in the culo.
Love creativeshrimp.com
cheers and congrats.
Gleb Alexandrov
Thanks man. For some reason, I couldn’t get this .zip button to appear 🙁 Maybe it’s because there are files larger than 1GB? The Gumroad help page says: “…if the total file size is greater than one GB, this feature will not be available”
3dnv
: (
Gleb Alexandrov
It seems to me that the only way to download it is to download each file separately. Yeah I know it sucks.
Gleb Alexandrov
Hey guys, for early birds there is a discount: https://gumroad.com/l/realistic_lighting/coffeemonsters
Aunpyz
Hi Gleb, I wonder how long the discount lasts?
Gleb Alexandrov
Aunpyz, I thought about 2-3 days initially.
onjoFilms
I was on the fence for several days, worried that with no GPU to speak of this might not be for me, but then saw the discount and bought. Hope this works for older machines with CPU.
Gleb Alexandrov
I would still recommend to get a decent GPU eventually. So much faster than even the top CPU. That said, if it won’t work for you for some reason, feel free to contact me anytime, and I’ll be happy to refund 🙂 Thanks!
3dnv
G man I just seen what I did, dude I am such an idiot, please edit to fix! I was too excited and didn’t read
Gleb Alexandrov
No worries! What do you mean? 🙂
3dnv
Anyway love your stuff and now I will just disappear. thanks for making great tutorials !
Gleb Alexandrov
Haha that’s fine :)) Take it easy.
Gleb Alexandrov
https://twitter.com/gleb_alexandrov/status/727182490499207169
Jean-Marc
$35? Are you kidding me? That’s worth at least $100! Ok it’s on my to-buy list this month. Looks awesome.
Gleb Alexandrov
Jean-Marc, that’s much appreciated. 🙂 I’ll wait, hehe.
Gleb Alexandrov
https://twitter.com/gleb_alexandrov/status/727182490499207169
TianWei
Hey Gleb, I was wondering where are you from originally?
Gleb Alexandrov
TianWei, I’m from Belarus.
Danny Austin
I downloaded these and watched them last night. Absolutely worth the money and more. Thanks for all your hard work on this Gleb. Much appreciated.
I really like your artistic approach to CGI, it’s really refreshng.
Gleb Alexandrov
Danny, I’m so happy you wrote a quick review. It is so encouraging for me that you find the course to be helpful!
Mrityunjay
hello sir i am absolutely amazed by listening that its only $35!!!!! (i thought it would be around $100+ ) but i m 16 and earn $0 right now but yeah honestly i Will buy this amazing course from my first income! (and its gonna be pritty soon!!) 😀
Gleb Alexandrov
Sounds good 😉
Erwin Sokólski
Thank you Gleb, you’re genious! Definetly i’ll try your tricks in my projects!
Gleb Alexandrov
Erwin, that’s the coolest thing you can do – try to incorporate it into your own work. Way to go!
Yanbo Zhang
Hi, Gleb, I have a paypal account. But the link you gave require a credit card, which is not available for some students. So can you provide other way to pay for this tutorial? Thanks.
Gleb Alexandrov
Hi Yanbo, there is a Paypal option there too: https://gumroad.com/l/realistic_lighting/coffeemonsters
Yanbo Zhang
Thank you for your reply, but the Paypal here is also require a credit card ….
Gleb Alexandrov
Just to make sure, when you click on PayPal button it still requires a credit card?
Yanbo Zhang
No. But it says that they cannot verify my card information. My card was handled in China, maybe Gumroad don’t have my information. Can I just pay through Paypal directly to your account, and then you give me a download link or an “offer code”?
Gleb Alexandrov
It seems to me that people had a similar problem with Gumroad and Paypal. That’s how it was solved:
“This is strange, when I used my phone it worked. It asked for different information (didn’t ask for name on card, but asked for address). Hope that helps if anyone else has the problem.”
If that doesn’t work, email me at contact@creativeshrimp.com and we’ll arrange something. Thanks.
3dnv
I hope its okay, I am pimping you over in the The Foundry Modo forums:
http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=4&t=60807&page=80
try and spread the word, there is a healthy bunch of Blender enthusiasts there but I also I believe your tips and tricks transcend software.
🙂
Gleb Alexandrov
Transcendence, that sounds cool and scientific. Count me in!
Ahmet Salih
Great tutorials but 35$=100₺(Turkish Lira) in Turkey 🙁
Joseph Charles
I’ll wait until you raise the price then buy it 🙂
Gleb Alexandrov
Joseph, don’t mock me or I’ll make the pay-what-you-want variant. 😀
Edward Baker
Gleb, I just want to say thanks! picked this up the second I got the notification email when I was eating lunch at work!! Fantastic ideas, and I can’t wait to put them into my workflow. Got the early bird discount. Absolute steal at the regular price, but couldn’t resist saving $5 more 🙂
I’m back on your site to re-watch your camera rig tutorial for a job I’m on. Ran into the f-curves noise influence problem when adding some shake for a product shot and remember you had a work around.
Gleb Alexandrov
Edward, I usually can’t resist the $5 temptation too, haha 🙂 Especially when buying clothes and swag. No point in resisting!
I’m glad to know that the camera rig tutorial is helpful to you. Probably I’ll make a sequel to it, with the real camera shake tracking.
CrazyEngine
Damn, I’ll have to wait ’til next month. But I’m glad it’s so cheap. o.o Thanks for that! <3
Gleb Alexandrov
No probs! 😀
PluszowyMis
kupił bym za tyle jak by to było po POLSKU! a jest po ENG to moge dać 35 PLN!
Miszla
Nie narzekaj. Angielski jest potrzebny do podstawowej komunikacji w internecie i po prostu trzeba się go nauczyć. Nie potrafię się nim płynnie posługiwać, ale takie poradniki mają to do siebie, że używa się głównie, że tak go nazwę, blenderowego języka. Kiedy ktoś mówi “connect image node to the viewer” rozumiemy to, ponieważ występuję te nazwy “image, node oraz viewer”, które są napisane i których normalnie się używa podczas tłumazcenia czegoś po polsku. A cena jest bardzo dobra: Andrew Price za 30 dolarów sprzedaje tylko zestaw teł, jakieś lepsze produkty kosztują minimum 150 dolców, jeden nawet 600. Dlatego jestem bardzo Glebowi wdzięczna za to, co zrobił.
Sandra D
by intermediate, what skills should someone have already before starting?
Gleb Alexandrov
Sandra, thanks for the question 🙂 What you need before starting is to know the basics: how to open the node editor, navigate in the viewport, throw in some lights. Essentially what I’ll be showing in the tutorials, is how to take the scene with the basic light setup and take it to the next level.
While the course is labeled as intermediate, I tried hard to make it accessible for beginners. I’m sure you will be able to follow through! 🙂
Dương Nguyễn Minh Thuận
I can’t get it because I’m in Viet Nam :((
Gleb Alexandrov
Drop me an email using this thingy and we’ll think how to sort it out: http://www.creativeshrimp.com/contact
Kai Neumann
Bought it yesterday. From what I can tell so far, great work Gleb! It was totally worth it! 🙂
I actually never heard of Autodesk Memento before. it seems like a great free alternative to Photoscan. I was really thinking about buying Photoscan, though. So my question for you is, would you recommend me to buy Photoscan, now that I could use Memento as well?
Gleb Alexandrov
Amazing! =) Kai, Memento may become a commercial product in late May, based on what Autodesk announced. So I’m not sure whether it will have a free/offline version. Anyways, Photoscan is probably the best choice. Personally I would recommend Photoscan.
Ayesha Noor
Damm, I dont have credit card nor paypal, what are alternate methods to pay.
Gleb Alexandrov
Ayesha, I’m afraid that credit card or paypal are the only methods that Gumroad accepts.
Ayesha Noor
Ha, I am from Pakistan. And please study about pakistan. Here in pakistan its difficult to buy online stuff or shopping; Tax, custom etc problems. Can you accept Western Union.
Gleb Alexandrov
Please contact me via email: http://www.creativeshrimp.com/contact
Thanks!
Ayesha Noor
Contacted you via mail.
saad aziz
Hi Ayesha , email me at Saadaziz318@gmail.com i am from Pakistan need to urgently talk to you .
Or you can DM me at insta @saadsdesign
Miszla
The price is awesome! I’m from east too and I was always upset when I saw Andrew Price’s prices. I understood: he made a lot of good work, but when I counted this dolars to my currency… agh. The basic version of Architecture Academy costs half of avarage-good salary. (958zł, when salary is usually around 2000zł). And platinum version? 2699zł – more than good salary (2500zł) I’m really gratefull to you for this available to me price.
Gleb Alexandrov
No problem, Miszla.
Carolyn Roberts
Hi Gleb. I bought this right away when I saw it because I knew it would be fantastic. You never disappoint! I’m playing around with faking volumetric swirling mist using Dynamic Paint after watching the “Volume Light Hack” video. Super fun stuff. Thanks for the inspiration!
Gleb Alexandrov
Oh, that’s intriguing. Carolyn, please feel free to share any kind of images with your experiments. And thanks so much for your support!
Carolyn Roberts
Here is my first attempt. Clearly it needs a lot of work and I will create multiple layers once I get it looking right on the first one. https://youtu.be/UzKV0oaFXS4
Gleb Alexandrov
Cool & ghostly, I love it! Did you use the flat planes with emissive shaders or the volume scatter?
As an alternative (that takes a longer time to render), you can try using the procedural noise plugged in the density input of the volume scatter shader. For example, the musgrave noise + mapping node with animated X location.
Carolyn Roberts
I baked the animated texture out of dynamic paint and mapped it onto a plane with an emissive shader. My goal is to create an animated effect that renders much faster than using actual volumetrics. I’m thinking of making a simple sci-fi environment with a cartoony alien walking through the mist.
Gleb Alexandrov
Looks pretty realistic to me. Good cheat 🙂 Also you can use the Distance to camera to fade the plane gradually, when we move closer to it (in other words, mix it with the transparent shader). Just my 2 cents. I think you already know that stuff 🙂
Mateus Bertolini de Moraes
Hello, Gleb! Congrats for the course.
Man, probably u had respond to this question several time. Sorry by the way.
Which machine are u using in this course, cause your renders preview are so fast!!!(?).
Thanks in advance.
Adrian Andersen
I love you so much for pricing this as it is, most blender users won’t be able to afford hundred-dollar-products, but this was a no-brainer, bught, and downloading. Thank you!
Gleb Alexandrov
Adrian, you made my day. I’m so glad to know that you like it! That will help me to create more cool stuff in the future 😀
Nathaniel Jonathan Ferrel
wow, REAL tutorial, with damn low price, +wishlisted
Gleb Alexandrov
Nathaniel, I feel empowered, thanks a ton! Give it a try.
Kyle Vuorinen
I’m currently listening to you talk about this product on the podcast with Andrew from back in December. I am so excited to learn from these! Thank you Gleb!
Gleb Alexandrov
Kyle, would you mind sharing your thoughts about this series after you watch it? I’m really interested in hearing from you, what you liked/disliked about it, what you found interesting/boring and so on. If you have a few minutes to spare, of course 🙂
Have fun and thanks!
p.s. On the podcast we talked more about the Lighting Project – the book about lighting. http://www.creativeshrimp.com/lighting-tutorials-my-way-to-write-a-book.html
On the other hand, this lighting course was recorded a bit later 🙂 http://www.creativeshrimp.com/realistic-lighting-in-blender.html
saad aziz
Hi Glen thanks for these amazing tutorials at very affordable price for students too.
Waiting for your next tutorials to learn something new . Enjoy your cup of coffee 😉
SpeedyKabal
How About give it to me for Free (y) 🙂 :p
KHAIRIL ANUAR BIN MUHAMAD
Im new to BLender…do u have any starter pack? Or is it ok if i buy this one as my starter pack tutorial?
MattTheWaffleCat
lol, i was a little skeptical at first but if andrew price says it’s good then i might consider it
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Bonnie
Best purchase ever! I watched it all in once and LOVED it!! ^_^ You are the best Gleb! :’-)
Gleb Alexandrov
Bonnie, aaaaa you’re too kind. needless to say, you really made my day! Btw, are there things that you disliked about this series (or want to see improved)?
Bonnie
Thank you for your response! 🙂 I’m really trying but I can’t think of ANYTHING!! You explain everything very well, the length of the vids is great, it’s really diverse and I’m learning SO much new stuff! Also, I like Gumroad because all of the vids stay organized and I can watch them online. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Just keep doing the awesome things you do!
(Oh and please keep the jokes and the cat! ^_^ )
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spproplus
WHAT!!!
I can’t believe I never seen this course of yours before!
Ordering it RIGHT AWAY! I WANT IT NOW!!!
Also will definitely get the Space VFX One as well.
A big thank you for being who you are Gleb.
Bartek Piwowarski
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Thank you Gleb for ur tutorials 🙂
sungsoon lee
Hello gleb, I bought your this great tutorial two day ago, I watched and I followed you, it’s awesomely experience. But I was faced with a curious problem, how can I get the great caustics? In your tutorial, you just only teach the way to use. If I make architecture scene using caustics, like as the house with big pool or huge lounge with big window which is made of curtain wall, how can I get their scenes caustics?