Product Design Renders with HDRI

Piotr Kosinski (PK3D.com) used HyperShot to bring his beautiful shaver model to life. Using HDR Light Studio (Standard) to make his own HDRI map, he was able to precisely place and adjust studio lighting around his product, just like a Pro photo shoot.

HDR Light Studio is being adopted by design studios around the world to bring out the best in their product design renderings. Off the shelf static HDRIs are hit and miss, and are not a professional way to approach controlling lighting and reflections in your product design renders. Every product form is different (and every camera angle too) and therefore needs lights and reflections with unique positions, sizes and brightness etc for that shot to bring out the best in the photo-real rendering.

HDR Light Studio let's you start thinking like a photographer and gives you the power to pick your view and then build up the lights where ‘you’ want them in a HDRI map. This HDRI map will represent all your lights and reflections around your design.

Modo workflow video

Boston based Industrial Designer, Adam OHern, has released a short video showing the workflow between HDR Light Studio (Basic) and Luxology Modo. It also includes some great tips on getting useful alpha channels and a shadow layer out of your render setup.

It's great for those learning Modo for product design renders and is a useful little taster of HDR Light Studio.

Check it out on his web site: http://adam.theoherns.com/2010/01/10/hdr-light-studio-basic/

Or on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamU3FLRWjM

Brendan McCaffrey - amazing HDRI lighting!

Brendan McCaffrey has produced a stunning range of photo real renders of this Trek bicycle model. All lighting and reflections have come from HDRI maps made in HDR Light Studio. We interviewed Brendan to talk about his career and his use of HDR Light Studio, and how it has slashed his render times on hi-res images with V-Ray.

Click here for our interview and see his awesome hi-res images...

Click here for his project posting on cgtalk.com, and see the response he's getting to this amazing showpiece...