日本語: Study 5: シンプルライティング

Associated lesson here: Lesson 5: Let there be (dynamic lighting, 8k, rendered in octane)

This study combines what we practiced in studies 2 and 3 together! Today, we’ll be combining an ambient occlusion map with a color key.

Using niji, generate an ambient occlusion map and a color key.

Ambient Occlusion Map/Color Key

Note: niji does not make perfect ambient occlusion maps, so you may need to knock out a few shadows in your steps below. Do not follow the lighting of the Ambient Occlusion map. Instead, follow the lighting on your color key.

Step 1: Setting your layer to multiply, paint the diffuse color on top of the ambient occlusion map.

Remember this is the “true color” of the object. So try your best to imagine what the reference would look like without any lighting.

Step 2: Use a Multiply layer to draw the shadows

To do this, first, we must get a good feeling of where the terminator line is in the color key

Then, we draw the same terminator line in our own study, using the multiply layer