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So this is one of my attempts at lighting.
It looks awful.
The skyscrapers here are lighted form inside with a point light, since they are hollow.
I am using a sun light too to make the general scene brighter, its too dim without one.
finally, one spot light that is linked to the humanoid (i.e it only applies to the humanoid) to give the humanoid more highlight.
oh forgot to mention there is a slight fog to dim the background, using a cube with volume scatter
So after following some of your tips and suggestions, I have achieved the following result:
What I did:
- Use an HDRI as a base
- Change sun position to make shadows visible
- lower sun strength
- change the light color of the skyscraper behind the humanoid
- change the highlights position and color to match the skyscrapers around
- modified the fog, increased its visibility and changed its color and density
Although it doesnt look perfect nor great, I am very happy with how it turned out , and that is thanks to everyone here.
I am planning to make more changes, based on the other comments, like that comment that suggested bloom, so expect another update inshallah ๐
Anyway, really like the new render, thank you lemmings ๐ค
Use references, watch tutorials, follow them, don't listen to ppl saying not to do tuts, that advice is for people who have already used the software for yeaes and are stuck only doing tutorials, you'll only get good following ppl who know what they are doing ans getting good habits initially. I'm trying to hit 1 tut a day right now, still feel way behind from where I want to be 2 years in. If I didn't do any tuts id be so much further behind, just fiddling with sht cluelessly.
There are more than a few really good yt tuts on making buidings and cities, def check out some on lighting/compositing, I also tried making cities with no reference from scratch without following any tuts when I started.