For digital artists using Reallusion Character Creator (CC) and iClone, achieving true photorealism often comes down to one critical element: lighting. The Light Studio Combo Pack from Reallusion is an essential asset designed to give creators the tools of a professional photographer, instantly elevating character portraits and scenes to a stunning, believable quality.
The pack is primarily engineered to maximize the realism offered by the Character Creator/iClone Iray Render Plug-in.
Core Features and Components
The Light Studio pack is a complete utility kit, providing a vast array of presets and components to accurately simulate real-world lighting environments and professional studio setups.
The pack includes a total of 44 Lightroom presets, 44 Atmosphere presets, 40 IBL presets, and 38 lighting Props. These elements are broken down into five distinct categories:
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Studio Lighting (17 Setups): Provides proven lighting setups for fashion and portrait photography. These include IBL, Real Light, Backdrop, Mesh Light, and Reflector presets, allowing for standard, natural, soft, and basic gradient lighting effects commonly used in professional shoots.
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Cinematic Lighting (11 Setups): Designed to create mood, mystery, and drama. These setups emphasize high contrast, specific color temperatures, and strong backlighting to achieve powerful visual results suitable for filmmaking or dramatic stills.
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Light Patterns (4 Patterns): Allows users to project specific focused light and shadow effects using pictorial images as light source masks (or gobos). Patterns include effects like tree leaves, windows, and light dots for compelling imaginary lighting.
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Sun and Sky (4 Simulations): Offers realistic simulations of different times of day—dawn, noon, afternoon, and sunset. Users can easily control and adjust sun direction and time settings within the Iray lighting controls.
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Eye Reflection (8 Patterns): This crucial detail adds life and realism to digital human characters. The pack provides eight specific reflection patterns to increase the gloss and realism of pupils.
Do-It-Yourself Lighting Components
Beyond the instant presets, the Light Studio pack is also a comprehensive kit of individual components used by professional lighting masters. This allows users to build and customize their own complex lighting scenarios using:
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Softboxes
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Reflectors
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Backplanes
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Special Lights
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Image Planes
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Floor and Wall Props
The pack also includes 10 bonus HDRi (High Dynamic Range Images) for sophisticated Image-Based Lighting.
By combining all these elements, the Light Studio pack ensures that artists can achieve the most beautiful and photo-realistic renders, helping their digital human creations immediately stand out. The content is compatible with both Character Creator (CC v3.00 or above) and iClone (iC v7.30 or above), and a dedicated format is even provided for use within NVIDIA Omniverse.
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