CHAPTER 2
Texturing and Lighting a Product, Part 2
In Chapter 1, “Texturing and Lighting a Product, Part 1,” you textured and lit a pair of headphones. In this chapter, you'll continue to fine-tune the texturing and lighting to add detail and realism. This part of the project will guide you through the following steps:
- Accentuating the logos
- Adding strategic fill light
- Splitting material assignments
- >Fine-tuning the shadow
- Switching to mental ray
- Blurring reflections
- Using the Final Gathering option
- Creating the final render
In addition, important lighting and texturing theory is included as follows:
- Batch rendering
- Light width
- Anti-aliasing settings
- The Final Gathering system
- Optimizing the scene
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