The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Lighting and Shading in Solaris
In this course, you’ll learn how to use the latest Houdini & Solaris workflows to build production ready assets and large environment as well as shade, light and render everything using Karma XPU and Arnold or any other engine with MaterialX support.
Week1
Introduction To Solaris and USD basics: What is USD and why is it beneficial. We’ll learn cinematic lighting principles as we light our first scene.
Week2
Basic Assets: The basics of constructing an asset in USD the manual way. The underlying concepts of building an asset in USD.
Week3
Advanced Assetization: Creating our own asset template and customizing the component builder for our needs. Procedurally processing and shading a large library of assets.
Week4
Establishing shot part1: Laying out a large scene with solaris tools and instancing workflows. How to lookdev many lighting setups quickly.
Week5
Establishing shot Part2: Adding water and Additional FX to our establishing shot. How to approach completing this shot as a single artist vs a team.
Week6
Lighting with Footage – HDR: The complete technical workflow to correctly light with HDRs, Spatial lighting concepts.
Week7
Lighting with footage – No HDR: The proper workflow for lighting shots without an on-set photography to help.
Week8
Sequence Lighting and Compositing: How to use solaris in a sequence and how to add photo-realism to renders via compositing.
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