Metallic lettering, Part 2 (lighting setup)

By Christopher Tyler on April 24, 2013

1. Metallic lettering, Part 2 (lighting setup)
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This lighting tutorial walks through the process of lighting the metallic letters. The use of glow panels and the Lightdome/HDRI are used to provide a studio like lighting environment. Video 5 also demonstrates how to control the quality of blurry reflection using both blurry samples and the Adaptive Surface Sampling rendering parameter.

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UV Setup for lettering faces
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