Okay, So I'm a Little Addicted to This Thing…
Yeah, he may look a little like a mass murderer. But he's your mass murderer, to light any way you like by playing with knobs and buttons at VLS.
On the one hand, I just blew 20 mins playing with this thing. On the other, pretty sure this guy is gonna kill me in my dreams tonight.
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Posted at 5:49 PM.
28 Comments:
Soooo cooool..!!
Yup.....really good.
I am really digging this site. Thanks for the share!
Very nice find David, thanks! If it gets some improvements like naming the lights so you don't lose count (I am newbie you can tell) would be a killer. Looking forward for an iPhone version of it.
Elias
Such a useful tool, the only thing that could improve it in my opinion is the addition of snoots or flags to the options to add a little more directional/ spill control and this will be perfect. It's already better than some of the other apps available on the market.
If you spent 20 min, then I'll sure spend 2 hours ;)
Wow that is amazing!
Thanks, you just blew my whole day!!
David, this is amazing good find and thanks for sharing, as others have said there are others out there but this is really easy to use, just spent an hour figuring things out.
Very cool! It be awesome if you could generate a lighting diagram after you "positioned" the lights.
very interesting site, now I need to work out how to use it to inform my lights. Excellent.
David
Since this appears to be a beta concept, I'd say the user interface needs more tweeking...especially the directional arrows.
@Mike Mahoney. You can save a lighting diagram from the site. The help section explains how to do it. Basically, when you get the lighting the way you want it, you save it in one of the slots on the right. When it's saved on the right, you can right click the saved slot and choose to save the image. When you do this, it saves the photo and the attached lighting diagram.
Sure beats playing "Angry Birds" on the A train-
I just figured out a scheme for a job on Tuesday.
Another great find. Thank You!
This beats mowing the lawn....
Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing David!
Ha. Found it yesterday, and spent 20 minutes myself playing with it. Still needs some tweaking, but it's a fabulous concept. Imagine a whole bunch of different type of modifiers and the ability to add flags etc. But yes, cool fun. I'm showing it to my lighting students this week.
Pretty cool, but the rendering looks awful (completely unusable) in my version of Firefox for some reason. I may try Safari or Chrome later to see if that helps. Thanks for sharing!
The "hair" light doesn't work in this case :D
Just a side note, but this may be a continuation of the original work I started using Blender to pre-vis my lighting setups:
Visualize Photography Lighting Setups
The nice thing about this is that you can do even cooler things with the actual Blender file (if you know how to use it), such as bounce cards and walls generating realistic reflections. (Including colors).
With gold colored reflector
I would love to see this in an app version for the iPad. What a great training/learning tool.
Can you turn the head? Nod it? Un-nod it? Change facial types? Pretty sweet.
Fun site but the dude needs some hair! I put a light behind him which just made his ears glow so I raised it up a little and the shine off of his head was blinding! Flags would be good as well. I think it is off to a fine start for a Beta though.
Great post. Hope he doesn't kill you in your dreams haha.
There's a less "precise" but more fun version by Paul Debevec and friends from 11 years ago here:
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/FaceDemo/
I usually just use the Emily dataset.
Using final gahter and global illumination In 3dsmax/Maya and vray/mental ray is the best way to previs... your shots, this website may seems cool for playing around but the direct lighting that it uses is really ugly and doesnt allow any proper control over the shadows nor does it allow you to create your own lighting set-ups from scratch.
The model needs some serious direction to get him to relax and look more natural. Perhaps all the lighting changes are making him uncomfortable, and it's time to snap some shots outdoors in an environment familiar and natural to him.
This discovery of yours is nigh approaching some sort of strobey crack - have been fiddling w/ it for the past half an hour at least!
Would you perchance fancy displaying any of the products of your readers' virtual light meddlings? Here's my attempt (a wee bit a la Jill Greenberg, perhaps) if you're keen on posting it, haha. (Feel free to remove my link if you feel it spammy).
Have enjoyed your blog over the years, PS. First-time poster, long-time loomer.
Cheers, Luke.
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