HDR Light Studio for Cinema 4D

Light Cinema 4D scenes faster with HDR Light Studio. Unleash your creativity and raise image quality to the next level.

 

Images lit with HDR Light Studio

 

“HDR Light Studio gives you the freedom to focus on your image again, bringing everything back to the roots of photography – light and shadows. It literally gives you the ability to paint with light within the software setup you are used to.”

------Markus von Luecken, Bildbotschaft

 

HDR Light Studio transforms your Cinema 4D lighting workflow:

• Studio Lighting
• Lighting to match a back-plate image
• Adding lights/adjustments to existing HDRI maps

 

 

Creative Benefits:

• Fast
  • Craft lighting to a higher level
  • Explore more lighting treatments
• User Friendly
  • Puts the art back into lighting
  • Easy to use with real-time feedback
• Accurate
  • Precisely position lighting and reflections on 3D models

 

Commercial Benefits:

• Cost Effective
  • Increase productivity – light shots in minutes not hours
  • Image based lighting can significantly reduce render times
  • Works with your existing hardware/software
• Improve Quality
  •  HDR lighting raises image quality to the next level

 

Key Features:

• LightPaint – click/drag on the 3D render to position lights
• Create and edit HDRI maps in real-time
• Create and position 3D HDRI Area Lights/Emitters in real-time
• Procedural lights, image based lights and procedural sky
• Includes a large library of HDRI light source captures
• Ideal lighting solution for Physically Based Rendering
• OpenColorIO Color Management
• HDR Light Studio project is stored in the Cinema 4D scene file
• Can be used Standalone: Loads Alembic and Collada scenes

 

How does HDR Light Studio work with Cinema 4D?

The model has materials assigned, the camera view is setup, you are now ready to light…

1. Start HDR Light Studio from the Cinema 4D plug-in
2. Export the Cinema 4D scene into HDR Light Studio’s live 3D view
3. Paint your shot with lights in HDR Light Studio (Lights are automatically created in Cinema 4D as you light)
4. (Optional) Start interactive rendering in Cinema 4D and see the results as you light
5. To finish, HDR Light Studio generates high-res HDRI images for your lights
6. The completed Cinema 4D scene is now ready for rendering locally, or on a farm

 

HDR Light Studio for Cinema 4D is compatible with these renderers:
Cinema 4D, V-Ray, Maxwell, Octane Render, Arnold & Thea.

 

Requirements:

• Software delivery via internet download
• Internet connection required for license activation
• HDR Light Studio software requires approx. 200MB disc space
• Preset light content requires approx. 6.2GB disc space
• CPU based, no special graphics card required
• Compatible with Windows, MacOS
• Compatible with Cinema 4D 16,17,18

 

Kindly contact your reseller for a special bundle pricing if you would like to use HDR Light Studio with additional 3D software - i.e Maya, 3ds Max, MODO, LightWave3D, Houdini, Maxwell Studio, VRED, Rhino, SOLIDWORKS Visualize, DeltaGen.