I'm a beginner myself, but maybe you want to try out ghost lights/emissive surfaces. This
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helped me personaly
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You don't need pre set lights and the render settings are too difficult for a beginer to mess with. You can eiter use the emmisive surfaces exter mentioned or you can use spotlights as well.. Go see tutorials. Thundorn (the one that exter mentioned) is very good at emmisive surfaces, and WP Guru is very good at spotlights and more.
The thing you must remember is that you have to have lighting all around your character most of the times (to create the 3D effect in the 2D image) and these lightings are not suppose to be of the same strength (e.g. stronger in the front and left, softer in front and right and somewhere in between on her back and right. This is just an example.. you have to experiment until you get what you need.
For now, keep your Dome light off in the render settings (scene only), because it will be hard for you to create the effect you want with the dome lights on.
Look at real photos to see the angles of the shadows and try to mimic those with spotlights or whatever.
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Vanilla Sky (V4 character) from today's RDNA selection - Iray pimped, different eye textures and morphs transferred to G2F
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Light up is possible through camera - headlamp on, or in render environment map or environment intensity, in general rendering- auto headlamp. Play around and you will see.
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Looks good to me, make sure your headlamps are turned off (Render settings--> General --> Auto headlamp)
You can also adjust the exposure (Render settings--> Tone mapping--> Exposure value)
Here is a link to a tutorial on three-point lighting you could find useful
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Cheers,
SM
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Well there are many ways to do it. I'll show you some easy ways to improve your rendering. The first two are the quick and dirty the third way goes a bit more into depth on how to use the spot light in the most basic way. Hope it helps.
I'm guessing you rendered it with the standard rendering settings. This means the sky dome is active. (You see 'the sun' coming from the right.) This washes out the spot lights entirely. So you can rotate the sky dome or the scene to have the sun more heads on. (below is standard v.s. rotated and the settings used)
Second thing you can do is you increase the iso in the rendering (again standard v.s. changed and the settings used)
third thing is to change the spot light settings so they aren't washed out. I used a head on spot light which you don't want for your render but is good enough for the explanation but note that the face looks flat due to the 'wrong' placement of the light. (below is without spotlight v.s. with standard v.s. adjusted) Now this settings will only light her face as the beam is reasonably focussed and close.
To make it a little more obvious here is the same light but pink to better show what it adds:
If you want to light the entire body you can either get the light further away or defocus the beam. It will probably also require you to increase the lumen on the spot. (standard spot v.s. standard spot with increased lumen (12500 lm) v.s. less focussed spot (125000 lm) v.s. far away spot (1000000 lm)) again in pink to show the differences.
by combining all this and placing the spots in a better place you can get this please note I turned off the dome lighting and set it to scene only. And note I usually don't do portrait shots so it is far from amazing. (3 spots one from the front, one from the rightfront side and one from the back shining down.) I also added a false colour one to show what light adds what. and an overview of the scene.
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It's the first of may, first of may, outdoor fuckin' starts today!
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I've seen a bunch of these. I think the "be merry" poses work best.