Cinema 4D Tutorial - Octane Light Basics (Light Series #1)

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This is the first video in a series of tutorials about lighting.
In this video we'll go over the fundamentals of using the light object in Octane. Power, temperature, distribution, light shapes, light filtering, and other basic stuff that will help you understand better how to get the most out of your Octane light object.
In the next videos we'll go over more hands-on light setups from the real world of photography.
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Clips in this video are from these movies:
The French Dispatch [2021]
The Lighthouse (2019)
Sicario (2015)
The Master (2012)
Blade Runner 2047 (2017)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Exorcist (1973)
Raging Bull (1980)
Wall-E (2008)
Kagemusha (1980)
The Conformist (1970)
Dunkirk (2017)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Wrestler (2008)
Good Time (2017)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
O' Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
Rango (2009)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Why Light Matters
03:21 - Important Kernel Settings
04:32 - Adding an Area Light
04:53 - Area Size & Shape
06:05 - Power
06:20 - Temperature
06:44 - Texture
07:33 - Distribution
09:24 - Surface Brightness
10:00 - Double Sided
10:16 - Normalize
10:50 - Sample Rate
12:00 - Visible on Diffuse/Specular
12:16 - Cast Shadows
12:31 - Use Light Color
12:39 - Opacity
13:25 - Light Pass ID
13:58 - Visibility Tab
14:27 - Adding an IES Light
15:59 - Light Target
16:50 - Adding a Spot Light
18:12 - Adding a Sun Light
20:27 - Exposure/Gamma
21:02 - Highlight Compression
21:34 - White Balance
22:31 - Bloom/Glare
24:11 - Outro & Patrons Shoutout

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@do1609 2 жыл бұрын

oh hell yeah lighting tutorials from one of the best c4d content creators

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Let there be light and shit

@connormcsheffrey 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome back king 👑

@gusmaiawork 2 жыл бұрын

one of the most important aspects of 3D/CG covered by one of the best 3D/CG KZfaq channels out there really looking forward to this series, huge thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

@kareemelabkary7611 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, definitely long-awaited! Can't wait for the rest of this series to come out!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

It's gonna be a fun ride!

@pommedapi3847 Жыл бұрын

12:33 "use light color" is using the color of the base light that you change in the general tab of that light. great tutorial serie, love that it´s so precise and fast. thank you!

@EZZYLAND 2 жыл бұрын

seriously the best 25 mins of tutorial time ive spent in a LONG time. i am now a better artist than i was yesterday. thank you.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Haha man, I need to send this comment to my mom. My pleasure dude

@LXXVIIZONE 2 жыл бұрын

CANT WAIT FOR PART TWO OMFGGGGGGG LETS GOOOOOO, thank you xoxox

@Djoshua1000 2 жыл бұрын

best concise and easy to understand tutorial on light in octane i have ever seen!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

So happy to help!

@labcoat 2 жыл бұрын

Really good info as always, im glad you are back making videos again

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to be back

@EliMagaziner 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, man, thank you for this one. it's a gem of a tutorial, and I honestly can't believe there's another one in the works.

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Oh you know it, there are like 4 more!

@allexrain 2 жыл бұрын

OH YEEEES, THIS TOPIC, MUST HAVE 100%! Glad you are back man.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

We doing it my man!

@saadgamrani7451 2 жыл бұрын

Finally , i am always searching for lighting tutorial in your channel

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

The search has come to a beautiful end

@saadgamrani7451 2 жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic yup🙏

@NANGFAHAUS Жыл бұрын

One of the best vids I have seen.

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

I'm humbled!

@georgykorepin 2 жыл бұрын

man, it is brilliant

@devnull5109 Жыл бұрын

This video is so freaking good I don’t understand how you don’t have millions of subs. THANK YOU, I’ve just started learning C4D + Octane and I feel like I already took a massive course.

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

That's amazing to hear! To get millions of subs I think I need literally EVERYBODY in the world who works on c4d to subscribe. Hopefully one day haha

@captaingenerica 2 жыл бұрын

Learned a lot, excited for part 2

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, next week!

@chronos1385 2 жыл бұрын

You're in your own league on youtube when it comes to Octane, no one even comes close. Keep it up !

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Appreciate you! I can think of some, there's some amazing people doing great tutorials. Just watched one of Pwnisher's and I was so inspired that dude is inspo fo damn sho.

@willgardiner7618 Жыл бұрын

So good, man. This is one of the best Octane lighting explanations I've ever run across. THANK YOU!!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

My pleasure dude

@germanmairen 2 жыл бұрын

Love your tutorials man!!!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Love that you love them!

@rbe2157 2 жыл бұрын

I am very glad that you exist, thanks for the useful information and links to what inspires you

@upowlnight Жыл бұрын

This video is so insanely helpful! Such a great video to get me rolling as I start a project that is needing Octane and not what I am used to. Very thorough, and to the point, yet still very understandable. Great crash course, thank you!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

That's my only goal with these videos, appreciate you brother! Also now I want some tacos.

@tiranli8164 4 ай бұрын

Best tutorial!

@avaantgarbdesign8396 2 жыл бұрын

You have some of the best octane content. Incredible ty

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you dude!

@user-hy7uj1cb4q 2 жыл бұрын

It's a quick and perfect tutorial! Thank you for sharing high-quality tutorials every time. I'm learning a lot!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, my pleasure!

@jrhanshiu2091 Жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorials! I got a new job as a 3D generalist but I'm had a hard time adjusting to C4D and Octane. Your tutorails about textures and lighting are my savior!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that !

@47grams 2 жыл бұрын

beyond grateful for the clean explanation and talking through it at a good pace. Personally was helpful in learning more about octane lighting

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

My pleasure !

@SlayeRFCSM 2 жыл бұрын

Huge thanx for this video! Waiting for the next one!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@bebedeluz 2 жыл бұрын

I learned much more from this video than the multiple 40 min boring tutorials out there

@loudecho 2 жыл бұрын

been wating for this 💜

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

@andrewp4875 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your work!

@ericwest6140 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Your videos are one of the most helpful resources I've come across in my journey of learning 3D. Appreciate all the work in releasing these knowledge. Subscribing to your Patreon for sure!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you boss

@trynidada3734 2 жыл бұрын

i can only look and admire this tutorial because i don't have the gear to make these things but it makes me even more determined to save money for a new one. amazing work!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Hey today you don't need a lot to tackle any of this. A simple PC setup with any NVidia card from the past few years will do the job!

@lkmograph 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh yes you are back, and so am i. Great tutorial man, i am going to implement some of the techniques you showed in my next artowork!! :)

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

That's all I want you to do buddy!

@ZiqiHu Жыл бұрын

Ok, this tutorial is a Bible for me 😭 Thank you so much!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Haha let there be light am I right

@sidlake5954 2 жыл бұрын

You re such a master dude. wow

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Sid

@prettygrotesk254 2 жыл бұрын

wow. he did it again.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Dat boy juggin' again

@yordan_stoyanov 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You keep us going with these tuts!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Pleasure's all mine Yordan

@cubert22 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@asmrdrift Жыл бұрын

Fantastic series! I'm learning so much from you. I'm looking forward to the rest of the lighting series!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Hope you checked them all out, I'll probably release more at some point

@asmrdrift Жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic That would be great! You're channel is one of best on Octane!

@lucasschafer8323 2 жыл бұрын

Man I thought you were dead but damn you came back like Jesus showing us the light

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Next tutorial is how to walk on water

@ArKnar1 2 жыл бұрын

impressive as always!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks boss

@liljupiter2371 Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@MichaelHickman3D 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial, I really appreciate videos like this a lot. Thank you so much!!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure buddy!

@bikermouse9302 2 жыл бұрын

You sir are a hero, thanks for your content always super interesting, playful and educational.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

You got it dude!

@darkworx-films 2 жыл бұрын

super helpful even when working with octane for many years

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

That's amazing to hear

@hisroyalillness 2 жыл бұрын

Great overview. Now I can see the light ;)

@denzel_mob1523 2 ай бұрын

Gold

@PabloLucio 2 жыл бұрын

Havent seen it yet and I already know that this is the tutorial I was waiting for

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

@stefanimae7698 2 жыл бұрын

this is amazing, thank you thank you thank you

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome you're welcome you're welcome

@bispo.motion775 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice tutorial, thanks!

@talhazulqarnain2126 2 жыл бұрын

Insane Video, Love and respect

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Right back at ya

@farid7044 2 жыл бұрын

thank you very much!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

@murilomatheus7243 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Ur welcome

@fadeeeed 2 жыл бұрын

i think i knew everything already ... WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Haha literally my daily mantra.

@userinfo3119 2 жыл бұрын

This is insanely good. Better than GSG tutorials on Octane to be honest. Even better, this is somehow free?!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

I'm honored to be considered amongst the greats. And if I learned c4d with free tutorials, so that's the only way to keep the ball rolling!

@miguelespinoza4546 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!! Love u champ ! I only can say that…. Now i got it !

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

That's amazing to hear!

@Tomydurand 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, at 12:34 the "use light color" box is to keep the default light color of Cinema 4d. I use it like that (instead of using a rgb in the texture) because it changes the light color of the tag as well. Love watching this tuts, this is very clear on everything! Keep it up!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Ahh good one! So the only thing that it helps with is that you can see the light color in the viewport? Interesting. Thanks for this!

@Tomydurand 2 жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic not sure for the viewport but in the tag of the light. It’s much easier to see in your object manager.

@borosko.design Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much; this is such a good tutorial !!! ❤

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@P3eeez 2 жыл бұрын

omg THANK YOU

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

PLEASURE

@mathieudubost9730 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Well thank you.

@ahmeduzair9999 2 жыл бұрын

it was pretty helpful but i hope you make more videos on generally how to make your lightening better, and how some cinematic lightening is used, i used to be an octane user but now i have shifted to arnold . Thanks for putting up amazing content , and hope to see more from this channel

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Hey so I have a bunch of other videos that show how to light a scene in a more practical way. Feel free to check them out!

@nguyenhuuhuy5448 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

I actually started making one but I gave up on it. It's in the making in I'll probably go back to it in the near future but I wasn't that pleased with my initial results I decided to put it aside and come back to it later.

@dennisbranson7816 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hope you'll also make a video on how to light products/objects soon. I feel like the info on it is more vague or limited compared to lighting people or organic stuff.

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. Lighting products is on its own level, and there's a lot of post-editing on that as well. Arthur Whitehead has some great tuts on it tho!

@rw3452 2 жыл бұрын

Sooooooo good!! I didn’t know you could use C4d lights in octane 😱

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, if a C4D light has an Octane light tag on it, it's an Octane light!

@rw3452 2 жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic omg this just changed my life! Thanks, you are supporting people you don’t even know create there dreams and support their homes 😇👏

@antoniopepe 2 жыл бұрын

execellent (I'm considering Octane over RS because it feels a thousand times more responsive to me.)... one dubt about the normalization of the light... i think its a relationship between size and power and not temperature ... its a feature present in almost any render engines.

@ganeshanvekar5009 2 жыл бұрын

Can you also make the tutorial for octane material?

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Most of my tutorials are on Octane materials!

@philippwelsing9108 Жыл бұрын

GREAT work, thank you very much, so appreciated!

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU buddy

@Djoshua1000 4 ай бұрын

I encountered the appearance of noise during animation if there was more than one light source. thanks for the information on sampling rate - the problem is solved by changing the parameter

@MrMaksoud 2 жыл бұрын

Great keep going please 😍👏

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't stopping baby

@loganpatrick1469 2 жыл бұрын

ITS JENGO!

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Damn my identity has been compromised. Abort! Abort!

@_TheMarwan_ 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I would love it if you could make a discord where everyone can share their creations from your videos

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude I've been thinking about opening a discord since forever. I've been waiting to gather a bit more of a firm direction with the channel before doing that but it looks like it'll happen soon.

@ckevin6201 Жыл бұрын

lol the leonado intro😂

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

🤪

@botondben Жыл бұрын

Thank your for the usefull informations! I have a question though. How to change the spread value for theese area lights? IN redshift there is a spread setting which I couldn't find in octane.

@NewPlastic Жыл бұрын

Octane and Redshift are fundamentally different, Octane is an Unbiased engine, which basically means it's using real life physical attributes as the basis for simulating what you see. Redshift works different, it kinda uses trickery and hacks to get there. None is better than the other they just work different. The point is that since Octane is unbiased, there's not way to really change the spread just like you couldn't do it in real life. The way you would wanna approach that in Octane is either scaling down the light object, using an IES texture, or surround the light with black "flaps" to focus it (what's known as Barn Doors). I usually just use an IES texture to simulate a different spread of the light.

@botondben Жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic thank you for your throrough answer! 🤞🏽

@dorianbechter5140 2 жыл бұрын

what's your workflow for rendering out multiple stills with let's say different camera angles, how would i go about that in cinema 4d and octane ? still can't get my head around that

@jaloliddinmukhammatkulov8250 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot to help us with this kind of tutorials, recently I have started use Octane, so some of my scene are logging out due to VRAM capacity, Can you show how to optimize big landscape scenes, and octane setting. I appreciate it, thank you👍👍👍

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Dude I get it, there's different approaches to it like using instances, making the objects as low poly as possible, not using super high-res image textures if you dont need them etc. You would think the best solution would be to get a GPU with more VRAM but man as soon as you have more ram you immediately crank up the details in your scene and max out on your new GPU. Anyway yeah I might go over that this year! It's an important thing to be aware of when creating a scene.

@jaloliddinmukhammatkulov8250 2 жыл бұрын

@@NewPlastic Yeah, I got it, I might, I didn't reduce polygons. So I use RTX 3060 6gb, I checked in octane settings that octane uses only 4gb from 6gb (maximum), why it doesn't use fully? Thanks to answering every comments)))

@Wesley-pk5de 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. I always have a difficult time trying to light packshots, specially those made out of glass (like a fragrance bottle, for example). Would be awesome if you could shine some light (see what I did there? =p) on this topic.

@NewPlastic 2 жыл бұрын

Yessir, the following episodes will be shorter videos about how to approach different setups and moods. Glass is definitely not the easiest and most intuitive thing to light!