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Blender Lighting Tutorial for 3D Beginners - Learn How to Light

FlippedNormals via YouTube

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This beginner tutorial covers the fundamentals of lighting scenes in Blender, including common light types, power and shadow settings, soft lighting, and HDRI setup. It also demonstrates separating HDRI lighting from the rendered background with Light Path nodes.

Syllabus

Intro
Point Light
Point Light Settings
Power Settings
Sunlight
Gizmo
Spotlight
Area Light
Error Light
Soft Shadows
Duplicate Lights
Color
HDRI
Ambient Lighting
Boring Light
Node Wrangler
Environment Texture
HDR Image
Light Path Node
Outro

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FlippedNormals

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