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This might be OK if you’re doing your own color adjustments in post-processing software after making your render, but we can get a more high-contrast look by choosing “High Contrast” or “Medium High Contrast” instead:

Normally, the “Look” is set to “None” here, which provides a sort of “medium contrast” render. In “Render Properties” under “Color Management”, we can see the color profile settings which will be used in our final render: We should also care how things are going to look on a computer screen. The only light in the scene now comes from our lamps. Take a look at what happens to the Object View after we set the environmental lighting to zero: Here’s what things look like before we change the strength: We do that by setting the “Strength” of the World lighting to “0”. This can be turned off from World Settings, and in this case, we do want to turn this off and rely only on the lamps we’ve placed ourselves. There’s also global “world” lighting turned on right now, which is what is creating that “grey” background color in the Object View. Note that I added the fill light by selecting my original lamp, hitting “Shift + D” to duplicate it, then moving the new light behind the donut and lowering its intensity (to around 20W in my case).

The back of the donut before I add a fill light: I can add a weaker “fill light” behind the donut to fix this.

Playing with those three will adjust the brightness, size, position of shadows, and how “sharp” shadows appear:īecause I placed my lamp so close to the donut, there’s now a pretty strong difference between the lighting at the front of the donut (very bright) and the light at the back (very dark). Having the light generally above and offset from the object will provide a pleasant look that has some nice shadows to help us see the contours of our donut and sprinkles. Shadows are an important part of making objects look “defined”. Tip: lighting strength and position are going to determine a lot of things, in terms of the final “look” of the render. Now we can simultaneously see what things are going to look like from the camera’s perspective (left window) while adjusting the position of the light in the scene (right window): Start by splitting the viewer, which you can do by clicking and dragging from the top right corner: Now it’s time to add some more pleasant lighting to the scene. This file is the result of my work after following along with the steps in the YouTube video.

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You can download the associated “.blend” file here.

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You can download a PDF copy of this post here.Notes below correspond to this YouTube video.I’ll be making additional notes for each of the videos in the series! I'm currently creating lot of donuts, and will post my progress here.Just some notes I made while following along with this now-famous blender donut tutorial. The playlist is really fun to follow, Andrew is a fantastic teacher.

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Blender as a software was already overwhelming because of its strange and complicated interface and concepts, and the learning material was making it worse.Īnyway, this week when Youtube's algorithm decided I should care about Blender, I quickly found out that a lot of high quality learning material is now available for free and if very high resolution! I decided to go with Blender Guru's playlist 'Blender Beginner Tutorial Series'. I can still remember how confusing video tutorials (or written tutorials) where at the time, with terrible audio, low resolution, and in general instructions that were confusing and difficult to follow.

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At the time seeing what they were doing piqued my interest and I tried to learn how to use Blender as a past time activity, though I never got to the point of creating something interesting. I've first learned about Blender more than 10 years ago from friends who were quite serious at making 3D content. That was enough to convince me to look for Blender tutorals as I was failing to get any good results by my own. Hendy's progress as seen in the video is very impressive to say the least, and the scene he created and showcase at the end talks to me. Such as this really cool progress report from Hendy August: I had decided to do a simple logo in 3D using Blender for a side project, and somehow the suggestion algorithm picked that fact and decided to list videos of people documenting their progress creatin 3D content. A few days ago Youtube's algorithm had a small surprise for me.