Essential CG Lighting Techniques

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14Tricks of the Trade

‘Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.’

Dr Thomas Fuller

Tips and tricks

This chapter is rather different from the previous ones in that it gathers together all the tips, tricks and shortcuts that relate to lighting in one place, rather than have them sprinkled around the margins of the previous chapters.

This section is by no means an exhaustive one; it merely aims to put all the nifty little techniques that you’ll have come across during the course of this book into one place, along with a few others that are of course relevant to lighting.

Whilst an attempt has been made ...