Blender 3D – Portrait Lighting Masterclass by Harry Helps

Hi, my name is Harry! I’m a professional 3D artist with over a decade of experience. I’ve worked most recently as the Studio Director of an award-winning architectural visualization studio.

In this class, we’ll be mastering portrait lighting in Blender!

The purpose of this class is to show you how to replicate the dynamic and moody portrait lighting you’ve seen in professional photography while also giving you the knowledge to create your unique lighting schemes.

In this class, you’ll learn:

• The Common Light Types: We’ll explore the five main light types in Blender while also learning about their key parameters and how they affect our final image.
• Lighting Terminology: During our five unique exercises, we’ll discuss standard lighting terms such as primary, fill, and rim lighting.
• Critical Thinking and Analysis: We’ll analyze all five reference images to get an understanding of how each lighting scheme was created. This includes aspects like what type of light was used, where the light is in the scene, what color the light is, and more.
• Reference Recreation: We’ll take all that we’ve learned throughout our analysis to recreate the reference photo lighting as closely as possible using a premade started file provided in the project resources.