Harry Helps

Blender 3D: Portrait Lighting Masterclass

Hey! This looks great! Your new background really solidifies and grounds the lights within the scene. This was certainly the cherry on top of an already awesome render! Adding the wrinkles to the suit was a great idea! I don't have the original to compare with directly, but I'm pretty sure there are wrinkles where there weren't before (such as the center of the back). These wrinkles help catch highlights and shadows to make the lighting more dramatic. Great updates!

This looks great Albert! You've done a fantastic job recreating your reference image. This is made even more impactful by your use of this driver model as the base for the project! First off, you've identified each of the main light sources perfectly. Their positions, brightness and colors match the reference and create a near identical look regardless of slight differences in the model. A final touch that could even more closely match the reference would be to use volumes (fog) to create the glowing spots of lights in the distance beyond the figure. This is the technique we discussed in Reference 05 using the cube and Principled Volume shader. Obviously this is entirely optional, but it might be a fun exercise! The colorful points of lights would be created by simply placing colored point lights within the Principled Volume cube, then adjusting the density and anisotropy of the Principled Volume shader. As always, another great class project! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the lighting within Blender. It was also one of the first things that I noticed Blender did quite well!

I could spend hours and hours more with this lighting setup, I know its not a perfect recreation, but its good enough for me. I'll set this for my profile picture here that's for sure. xD The human model I imported from DAZ3D using a plugin called Diffeomorphic, finally something which is simple and straight forward in this program.
EDIT: Made the volume adjustment as Harry advised, and also added a background. I tried to add some cloth wrinkles to the racesuit, but Blender's sculpt system after Zbrush is pretty messy, and often the cloth went inside the model instead of going up or down to make wrinkles.
Recreation:
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/998d59eb.png 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/998d59eb.png 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/998d59eb.png" loading="lazy" alt="Recreated my all time favourite game's artwork - image 1 - student project">
Original:
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/b8c3cc90.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/b8c3cc90.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/discussion/tmp/b8c3cc90.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Recreated my all time favourite game's artwork - image 2 - student project">

Recreated my all time favourite game's artwork

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