Dimitris Katsafouros Breaks Down Real-World Lighting Scenarios That Can Help When You Light 3D Scenes

As artists, we can draw upon a great many concepts from photography. If you have ever wanted to “up” your lighting game, look no farther than mimicking real-life photography examples. 3D artist Dimitris Katsafouros delves into how light works in the real world, including some photographer’s studio setups.

Learning more about how light works in the real world, will inevitably help when lighting 3D scenes —This indeed has more weight with today’s physical renderers that have almost hyper-realistic light transport. Dimitris shares some of the assets used in this video. Check out the scanned head asset from Ten24 here, and the light setup for taking photos of glass objects here.