Image Based Lighting

As i mentioned in an earlier post i will be using a tutorial from an animation mentor student for the lighting setup....this involves IBL.....i did a couple of tests and these where my results.

With Image Based Lighting

Without Image Based Lighting

Although it still needs a lot of work added to it i can see a massive improvement compared to the render without IBL.

Since the article is focused on Maya and a lot of the setting its talks about are somewhat unique to Maya im finding it hard to port it over to XSi but im sure that with a little ingenuity and time i will be able to get it looking right in XSi.

I will be using a lot of other techniques such as Ambient Occlusion and maybe a photon map but as photon maps are quite difficult and sometimes unessential i will see if i can create the overall scene without doing one.

Ambient Occlusion

If you are interested at all in trying this yourself this is the article i am using as my templates for my rendering....IBL Tutorial

I will post later on any developments.