Lupin House Character Animation Mentorship

Advanced Lighting For Animation

Lighting is that last nudge that makes a shot jump off the screen. Our in-house team tweaks every student project until it looks feature-ready. Now we’re showing you exactly how we do it—step by step.

What You Will Learn

Learn the main tools used by the animation industry and their techniques in an easy way.
You will learn how to position the lights in a scene so that it looks beautiful and pleasing to the audience, how to use colors, how to separate layers for rendering and how to use lights to create a great final composition and render optimization.

Software

Maya, Arnold Render and After Effects

Level

While beginner friendly because we go step by step, these are advanced courses and basic knowledge of Maya is required.

Duration

This course is around 2 hours 45 minutes long, but you're free to go at your own pace!

Curriculum

Part 0: Setting Up The Cache

0.1 Exporting and Importing Alembic Cache

0.2 Assigning Textures

0.3 Importing Props

0.4 Background

0.5 Fixing Texture Paths

Part 1: Introduction to Arnold Renderer

1.1 Intro to Arnold

Part 2: Types of Lights

2.1 Area Lights

2.2 Directional Lights

2.3 Mesh Lights

2.4 Skydome Lights

2.5 Spot Lights

2.6 Volume Lights

2.7 Gobo Lights

2.8 Light Link

Part 3: Scene Lighting

3.1 Starting ACES

3.2 Lighting

3.3 Camera Settings

Part 4: Rendering

4.1 Render Layers

4.2 Render Settings & AOVs

Part 5: Post Production

5.1 Compositing (After Effects)

Who Is This Course For

You're an animator who wants to light their work!

Being able to make your animated shot stand out from the crowd is absolutely invaluable and pushing your work all the way to be showcased as you intended does exactly that.

You have basic experience in Maya.

If you have the basic experience in Maya and are familiar with navigation within the software, you're set! This course walks you step by step so there's no worry about getting lost.

You want to light shots at a feature film quality.

Let's be honest - we've all wondered what our work would look like in a feature film! Now you'll finally be able to picture it, because you'll have the skills to do so. Putting your animation in a feature film standard render immediately levels up your work and portrays you in a more professional light.

You want to prepare for studio lighting workflows.

This course explores the mystery of the lighting pipeline and breaks it down into easy to follow steps. From explaining the concept behind each step to why one comes after the other, this course will leave you feeling comfortable taking on the lighting for another shot with confidence that it's industry approved.

Course Outcome

The course is designed to guide you step by step, helping you create a lighting piece for your showreel.

You'll receive the resource cache so you can light your own shot and add your own creative flair using the techniques and insights gained throughout the course.

Lighting For Animation C.01

We keep our courses simple.
If you're ready to learn how to take this shot from cache to final render, enroll below!

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