Resources tagged: lighting
70 curated 3D resources tagged lighting (Workflow). Browse all tags.
- 10 Tips for Better Lighting tutorial. Helloluxx tutorial with 10 tips for improving lighting in 3D renders.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - 3ds Max Paid software. Autodesk polygonal DCC widely used in archviz, games, and broadcast VFX.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - Adobe Stock HDRI Paid marketplace. Adobe Stock search for paid studio HDRIs used to light product and studio renders.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - Ariev Visuals Resources reference. Octane tutorials and assets.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Renderer-Specific Learning - Arnold (Autodesk) Paid software. CPU/GPU hybrid production renderer, bundled with Maya/3ds Max.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - Autodesk VRED Paid software. OEM-standard automotive design review and photoreal viz.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - Beeble Paid software. AI relighting for footage that extracts normal, albedo and depth passes. Web app plus local Beeble Studio.
in Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software - Blockade Labs Skybox AI Free tier software. AI-generated 360° skyboxes/HDRIs from text.
in Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software - Cinema 4D Paid software. Maxon's motion-graphics and procedural 3D DCC; ships with Redshift and 5 Team Render nodes.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - CNDL Free tier tool. Web tool to create custom IES light profiles.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Production - Creative Product Lighting with Redshift & C4D channel. Jarred van de Voort, NAB 2023.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific - Creative Shrimp tutorial. Blender CG art and lighting tutorials by Gleb Alexandrov and Aidy Burrows.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - Easy HDRI plugin. Blender addon for browsing, loading and adjusting HDRI environment lighting.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - Enscape Paid software. Chaos real-time rendering plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks. Subscription only since mid-2025.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - Extra Lights plugin. Blender addon adding physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Foundry Katana Paid software. Look-development and lighting orchestration tool for film/episodic VFX, scaling to massive scenes via deferred evaluation.
in Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software - Free Sky Environment Shading plugin. Free custom procedural environment shading.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Plugin & Addon Marketplaces - Gaffer (Blender addon) plugin. Light-management panels for fast lighting setup and tweaking in Blender.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - Get Better Lighting in C4D channel. YouTube channel of motion designer Lukas Thorup with Cinema 4D lighting tutorials and breakdowns.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - Guerilla Render Free tier software. Bidirectional path tracer and lookdev/lighting app by Mercenaries Engineering, used on animated features. Free Discover tier, paid Station seats and render nodes.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - HDR Light Studio Paid software. Interactive HDRI editing and relighting tool for 3D. Bridges to Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Modo, Blender.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning - HDR Maps asset-source. Free HDRI packs from HDR Maps, a site that also sells premium HDRIs.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - HDR Shop software. Debevec's HDR assembly and panoramic transform tool. Historical software, still downloadable.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning - HDRI Hub Free tier marketplace. Professional HDRIs, backplates, textures & 3D people for archviz/CGI. Free commercial samples (HDRIs up to 8K) plus premium.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - HDRI Skies asset-source. Free sky HDRIs for lighting and backgrounds in 3D renders.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - HDRI Sun Aligner plugin. Automatically rotates a sun to match the brightest point in an HDRI environment texture.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - HDRI To Cube Map tool. A tool to convert your HDRI file into a Cube map.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities - Houdini Paid software. Procedural node-based DCC for VFX, simulation, and FX.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - How to Art Direct Lights in a Cloner channel. Art-directing lights across cloners.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific - Hugin software. Free OSS panorama stitcher built on Panorama Tools.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning - Indigo Renderer Paid software. Glare Technologies unbiased GPU/CPU renderer with multi-GPU, denoising, and SSS.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - KiloNeuS: Implicit Neural Representations with Real-Time Global Illumination paper. Esposito et al., Arxiv 2022.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers - Learning Neural Transmittance for Efficient Rendering of Reflectance Fields paper. Mohammad Shafiei et al., BMVC 2021.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers - LeoMoon LightStudio Paid plugin. Studio lighting system for Blender.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - Light Probes Placement plugin. Unity project showing automatic light probe placement via the LightProbesVolumes package.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - LightWave 3D Paid software. Veteran modeling, animation, and rendering DCC with a long film/broadcast legacy.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - Live FX (Assimilate) Paid software. Virtual production tool for live keying, compositing, DMX image-based lighting and LED playback.
in Software Reference → Virtual Production Software - Lumiere plugin. Interactive lighting addon for Blender.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - Luminance HDR software. HDR workflow. Merge brackets, tonemap, convert EXR/HDR/RGBE.
in Software Reference → Viewers & File Utilities - Lumion Paid software. Real-time architectural visualization renderer with cloud rendering bundled.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - Maxime Roz HDRI Pack asset-source. Free studio and outdoor HDRIs for product viz.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - Maxwell Render Paid software. Next Limit unbiased physically-correct renderer; plugins for Studio, Rhino, SketchUp, C4D, Maya, 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, form·Z.
in Software Reference → Render Engines - Maya Paid software. Film-industry animation and VFX DCC.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid - NeRV: Neural Reflectance and Visibility Fields for Relighting and View Synthesis paper. Srinivasan et al. CVPR 2021.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers - No Emotion HDRs asset-source. Free high-resolution HDRIs sorted by time of day.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - Open HDRI asset-source. Small library of free CC0 HDRIs for lighting 3D scenes.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - OpenFootage asset-source. Free HDRIs, VFX plates, and backplates.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - Pablander Academy Free tier tutorial. Character sculpting and digital art courses, tutorials, and brush packs (ZBrush, Blender, Substance, Marmoset).
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Photographer 2 plugin. Blender camera addon for exposure, white balance, and autofocus. Now free.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Plugin & Addon Marketplaces - Poly Haven HDRIs asset-source. Poly Haven's library of free CC0 HDRIs for lighting, available up to 16K.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - ProbePolisher plugin. Light probe editor for Unity.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - Projectors plugin. Create and modify projector lights in Blender.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons - PTGui Pro Paid software. Industry-standard panorama stitcher. Full HDR/bracketed support, mask painting, viewpoint correction.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning - Recovering HDR Radiance Maps (Debevec & Malik, 1997) paper. SIGGRAPH 1997 paper. Original HDR-from-bracketed-exposures recovery method.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers - Redshift Interior Materials & Lighting channel. Interior materials and lighting.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific - Redshift Lighting Techniques (Essential MoGraph) channel. Redshift lighting techniques.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific - Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes (Debevec, 1998) paper. SIGGRAPH 1998 paper founding image-based lighting.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers - RenderMan HDRIs asset-source. Pixar's collection of HDRIs provided for lighting with RenderMan.
in Assets & Libraries → HDRIs - School of Motion Lighting Blog reference. Shadows, volumetrics, HDRI, and area light techniques.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - Simple Light Probe Placer tool. Simple tool for placing light probes in Unity scenes.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - Simulon Free tier software. iPhone app that tracks camera and lighting to composite 3D assets into live-action footage.
in Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software - SSGI for EEVEE plugin. Converts diffuse and Principled BSDFs to node groups for a screen-space global illumination effect in EEVEE.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Plugin & Addon Marketplaces - SunCalc License unspecified tool. Sun position, golden hour, and shadow visualization for any location and time.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities - Terragen Free tier software. Procedural terrain, atmosphere and cloud generator and renderer for photoreal landscapes.
in Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software - The Digital Revolution channel. YouTube channel, formerly Motion Designers Community, with beginner Cinema 4D lighting tutorials.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - UE4 Env. project reference. Open environment simulation project (day/night, weather) for Unreal Engine 4.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - UE5 Product Viz. IPhone Lighting Breakdown channel. YouTube channel of ali.3d with 3D tutorials, including a UE5 iPhone product lighting breakdown.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Production - Veach Thesis (Stanford) reference. Light transport theory. Foundational PBR thesis.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Renderer-Specific Learning - Viz-People License unspecified asset-source. Archviz scenes, 3D people, vegetation, HDRIs.
in Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Architecture & Furniture - You And Me Academy channel. YouTube channel of You And Me Academy with Cinema 4D and Redshift tutorials, including light groups.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific