Lighting and Rendering

Lighting & Rendering Resources

Lighting workshop folder

Arnold

Documentation

If you want to know what a button or feature does, this is the best resource - Solid Angle’s documentation is excellent. This documentation is usually the first result when googling Arnold features.

Solid Angle - Arnold for Maya User Guide

Maya

Workshops/Videos

Alex Hartwin Film Lighting Workshop

Arvid Schneider Arnold tutorials

The videos below are an awesome resource - they are by a lighting artist at DICE and are super in-depth, focusing more on lighting theory than just technical stuff.

Intro forum post

Unreal 4 Lighting Academy - Session 1.1 Simon Stålenhag scene

Unreal 4 Lighting Academy - Session 4.1 Dark Souls scene