This is an incredible project in Lightwave where Philip Meyer takes you through photorealistic texturing and lighting techniques for a Fender Stratocaster. The renders of the model from this tutorial were featured in Expose, and we've included a final part as a bonus track where he goes over how to set up the scene and lighting for the exact same shot. It's a must have for guitar enthusiasts and everyone wishing to take their Lightwave skills to the next level.
Working with bitmap textures we make some adjustments to the original swatches in Photoshop and create the sunburst wood for the guitar body as well as some lighter wood textures for the neck. We then set up some initial lighting and move on to the materials making perfect chrome, soft gold and glossy plastic surfaces for frets, knobs, strings and pickups. Tweaking these surfaces to get the materials and lighting to go well together you'll learn some excellent shading techniques for working with metallic surfaces in Lightwave and creating photorealistic reflections. We focus on perfection in our materials and giving the aged Stratocaster look to the headstock, here we also go over how to create alpha textures for the fender logo and improve our lighting. Other things covered are good observation skills, surface gradients, blending textures, camera properties, specular reflections and incidence angle.
In the final part of this tutorial we recreate the banner shot from Expose with HDR lighting and radiosity rendering and achieve photorealism. The scene files with the high detail model of the fender are included. This model was created in the first part of this series Stratocaster Volume 1 - High Detail Modeling if you would like to make your own version from scratch.
Length:
3
Hours
2
Minutes
Instructor:
Philip Meyer
Format:
MPEG-4
Points Cost:
30
Price: $49.95
Covers
Photorealistic Chrome & Gold Metals
Glossy Wood & Plastic Materials
HDR Lighting & Radiosity
Labels & Logos
Texture Blending & Alpha Channels
Blurred Reflections & Specular Highlights
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Stratocaster Volume 2 - Texturing and Lighting
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Download Lesson 7
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