Such A Strage Girl - UE5 Lighting

[violet kettle]

Character Lighting Exercise Using UE5 and Metahuman rendered in realtime!

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WBJZWv

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[lusty island]

dude i thought thats a real shot

[fluid pagoda]

That looks incredible! Also thought it was real at first sight 😄

@violet kettle would you mind giving some tips on render settings and other “hidden” settings you might have used for this? I’d really appreciate it!

[violet kettle]

References? Yes I had photos or she was in front of me

[violet kettle]

To be honest it’s a really simple setup with 3 lights, one is without shadows, the other two are area lights,
“Lighting is simple, not easy”
I used also a LUT and that’s about it i just movie rendered it in 2560x1440 jpeg sequence with default settings 🙂

But thank you so much 🙏🏻

[violet kettle]

The best tip i could give you is to always try to do a type of Rembrandt lighting on faces and to have the face side towards the camera be the one with shadows always, you’ll notice this is present in every movie or production as it gives the best looking result possible on faces

Another photo of her

[fluid pagoda]

Thank you very much for your tips, much appreciated 🙏

I guess I tend to complicate render settings and try to play around with it but it’s not necessary 😅 if you don’t mind me, I’ve also done something with Metahuman here: https://discord.com/channels/187217643009212416/1129686440335376404

But I feel like the quality isn’t as good as it can be, a bit of flickering with the shadows, that I couldn’t figure out how to fix :/

[violet kettle]

Actually yours is very good! I love it and yes the flickering lights are an issue, i mostly get away with it because my scene is much darker!

[fluid pagoda]

Thank you! And I see, so it’s actually more about the strong lights causing the flickering, hopefully I’ll find a way to manage that

[violet kettle]

I think it's the metahuman materials most likely, in another piece i was having big shadows flickering on hairs, something you usually don't see in regular unreal setups 🙂

[dim jewel]

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