Animating with Blender

Lighting Interior Shots

Interior shots are significantly more difficult to light believably than exteriors. Many of us (especially computer people) spend an inordinate amount of time indoors and have a well-developed sense of the subtle shading and radiance effects of interior lighting. The best advice to give about working with interiors is to approach it as though you are a retail store designer. Take a trip to your local mall or shopping center, walk through some of the more upscale places (as long as security doesn’t tail your silly artistic self), and observe the way that the store is given a very natural look even though there is probably no natural light whatsoever.

If you’ve even been on stage in live theater, or, less likely but even ...