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Welcome to our Blog. Here you can find news on events, product updates, customer stories and much more.
Product & Automotive CGI - Why 3D Lighting Always Gets...
Lighting always takes the hit when projects overrun. Here's why - and what HDR Light Studio changes.
How to Use Real-World HDRi Maps in Your Creative Process
With this guest post, Roberto Kai Hegeler from CGI Backgrounds talks about real-world environments and enhancing them...
What is a Scrim Light?
In this article, we learn about Scrim Lights and why they are so important for studio photography.
What is a Car Rendering?
This article explains what Car Rendering is and the leading 3D software used in the Automotive CGI process
How do you make an HDRI Map?
We explore the various methods and gear required for making your own HDRI maps for image based lighting.
How does HDRI Lighting Work?
This article describes how HDRI lighting works using environment lights for image-based lighting.
What is a HDRI map?
In this article, we explain what a HDRI map is for those new to 3D rendering.
Learn about Area Lights in Cinema 4D
We learn about the features of area lights in Cinema 4D
Interview with Phil Sills
Our co-founder interviewed Phil to discover his journey to becoming a pro product photographer.
Free Blender 2.8 Lighting Tutorials
Our 4 part tutorial series teaches an absolute beginner how to create perfect lighting with Blender 2.83 or higher.
Creating HDR Textured Area Lights in Blender
Sharing what we learned about texturing Area Lights and Mesh Emitters during the add-on development.
New Training Series for Presets
To coincide with the release of Tungsten Drop 4, we have released new training so you can master using Presets.
Light Painting using a Promotional LED Torch Pen
You'll be amazed what you can do with our branded LED Torch Pen!
New HDR Light Studio Training Video
Develop your fundamental knowledge by learning about the interface and main features of HDR Light Studio.
Video Tutorial for Compositing Lightpainted Automotive Shots
Discover how techniques used in editing real-world light painted photographs can be applied to CGI images.
Add HDR Light Studio when the Model and Materials are...
Emphasis is put on having a perfect 3D model with realistic shaders/materials to see full potential of HDR Light Studio.
The problems with Stock Studio HDRI
In this article, we talk about why we don’t create and then sell stock HDRI maps.
Lighting Software for Engineering Visualization
This article discusses HDR Light Studio and its relevance to the workflow in engineering visualization.
Lighting Software for Jewellery Rendering
This article discusses HDR Light Studio and its relevance to the workflow in jewellery rendering.
Lighting Software for CGI Advertising
This article discusses HDR Light Studio and its relevance to workflow in CGI advertising imagery.
Lighting Software for Packaging Rendering
This article discusses HDR Light Studio and its relevance to workflow in packaging rendering.
Learn about Car Studio Lighting for CGI
This article explains studio lighting types to use for automotive studio renders.
Feature Focus: Render View
This article explains the difference between HDR Light Studio 4 and 5 in regards to the live render view.
Automotive CGI Studio Lighting Demo
A demonstration by Maciej Ptaszynski shows how he lights an automotive shot from scratch to achieve realistic effects.